(iii) a contingent grant of up to €0.7 billion, which would be triggered only if, after the acquisition by Banco Sabadell, Banco CAM could no longer benefit from the accumulated deferred tax assets as of 31 December 2011.

IAS 12 prescribes the subsequent accounting for deferred tax assets (including unrecognised deferred tax assets) and liabilities acquired in a business combination.

In accordance with IFRS 3, an entity recognises any resulting deferred tax assets (to the extent that they meet the recognition criteria in paragraph 24) or deferred tax liabilities as identifiable assets and liabilities at the acquisition date.

In 1990, Italian legislation provided that the transfer of assets was regarded, for tax purposes, as a sale of company assets and was subject to a tax on the capital gains (the difference between the book value of the transferred asset and its value for tax purposes).

9. Calls on the Commission to review all Community instruments such as Council Directive 90/435/EEC of 23 July 1990 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States , and Council Directive 90/434/EEC of 23 July 1990 on the common system of taxation applicable to mergers, divisions, transfers of assets and exchanges of shares concerning companies of different Member States or to consider whether it might lay down a common EU-wide corporation tax framework, providing for a share-out arrangement to reduce the compliance costs of tax operations;

Article 103(3) of the Spanish law on company taxation stipulates that if a company is fully or partly acquired (through purchase of its shares, which then lapse and are cancelled) by another company which itself has a substantial stake in it, the difference between the value of the shares purchased and the value of the assets received from the acquired company is made into a fixed asset and entered in the balance sheet as such; it can, however, be depreciated by up to 10% per year.