(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(h), if a high ratio loan has a term of less than five years or is not a fixed-rate loan, the gross debt service ratio and total debt service ratio must be calculated using the annual payments, in respect of the loan and any other loan with an equal or prior claim against the eligible residential property that has less than five years remaining in its term or is not a fixed-rate loan, that would be required to conform to the amortization schedule agreed to ...[+++]by the borrower and the lender if the interest rate were the greater of

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(h), if a high ratio loan has a term of less than five years or is not a fixed-rate loan, the gross debt service ratio and total debt service ratio must be calculated using the annual payments, in respect of the loan and any other loan with an equal or prior claim against the eligible residential property that has less than five years remaining in its term or is not a fixed-rate loan, that would be required to conform to the amortization schedule agreed to ...[+++]by the borrower and the lender if the interest rate were the greater of

3. Support under points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 shall be limited to the maximum support rates laid down in Annex II. Those maximum rates may be increased for young farmers, for collective investments, including those linked to a merger of Producer Organisations, and for integrated projects involving support under more than one measure, for investments in areas facing natural and other specific constraints as referred to in Article 32, for investments linked to operations under Articles 28 and 29 and for operations supported in the framework of the EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability in accordance with the support rat ...[+++]es laid down in Annex II. However, the maximum combined support rate may not exceed 90 %.

An investee is created to purchase a portfolio of fixed rate asset-backed securities, funded by fixed rate debt instruments and equity instruments.

However, the concept of price volatility must not be confused with the concept of the volatility of returns: from a point of return, the Agreement may be riskier than a fixed interest-rate portfolio in terms of its impact on PI’s interest margin (if interest rates are falling, floating-rate portfolios are riskier than fixed-rate portfolios, because they are not protected against repricing risks, and thus reduce PI’s margin).

The Italian authorities justify the comparison between the Agreement mechanism (based on floating interest rates) and the automatic quantitative models used by [.] aimed at proving the benefit of active management (based on fixed interest rates) by saying that the usual practice of market operators trading in bonds, and of PI since 2007, calls for investment in fixed-interest securities.