6.1.2015 Official Journal of the European Union L 2/57 COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2015/3 of 30 September 2014 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on disclosure requirements for structured finance instruments (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies ('), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 8b(3) thereof, Whereas: In accordance with Article 8b of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009, investors should receive sufficient information on the quality and performance of their underlying assets with a view to enabling them to perform an informed assessment of the creditworthiness of structured finance instruments. This would also reduce investors’ dependence on credit ratings and should facilitate the issuance of unsolicited credit ratings. This Regulation should apply to all financial instruments or other assets resulting from a securitisation transaction or scheme referred to in Article 4(1)(61) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on condition that the issuer, originator or sponsor, is established, and for that purpose has its statutory seat, in the Union. Therefore, this Regulation should only cover financial instruments or other assets resulting from any transaction or scheme whereby the credit risk associated with an exposure or pool of exposures is tranched and has the characteristics referred to in that Article. Therefore, in line with that Regulation, an exposure that creates a direct payment obligation for a transaction or scheme used to finance or operate physical assets should not be considered an exposure to a securitisation, even if the transaction or scheme has payment obligations of different seniority. The scope of this Regulation should not be limited to the issuance of structured finance instruments that qualify as securities, but also should include other financial instruments and assets resulting from a securitisation transaction or scheme, such as money-market instruments, including asset-backed commercial paper programmes. In addition, this Regulation should apply to structured finance instruments with and without credit ratings assigned by a credit rating agency registered in the Union. Private and bilateral transactions should also be within the scope of this Regulation, as well as transactions that are not offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market. This Regulation contains standardised disclosure templates for a number of asset class categories. Without prejudice to the scope of this Regulation and until reporting obligations have been developed by ESMA and adopted by the Commission, those standardised disclosure templates and all reporting obligations under this Regulation should apply only to structured finance instruments that are backed by underlying assets which are included in the list of underlying asset class categories specified in this Regulation and which in addition are not of a private or bilateral nature. When complying with this Regulation, issuers, originators and sponsors should comply with national and Union legislation governing the protection of confidentiality of information sources or the processing of personal data in order to avoid potential breaches of such legislation. () OJ L 302, 17.11.2009, p. 1. (%) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (O] L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 1).