As well as providing loans and guarantees on a market-driven, first-come, first-served basis, the Debt facility will target, under a series of compartments, particular policies and sectors.

36. Notes that EIB borrowing and lending activity both inside and outside the European Union has progressively increased and today constitutes the main EU-level tool for borrowing and lending; notes, furthermore, that there has been a great demand, including from Asia, for bonds issued by the EIB; calls on the EIB and its governors, therefore, to maximise that borrowing potential by issuing, in particular, euro-denominated bonds on the global market in order to support long-term objectives and to mitigate the economic slowdown both inside the European Union and in its neighbouring countries as a public policy-driven bank;

39. Notes that EIB borrowing and lending activity both inside and outside the European Union has progressively increased and today constitutes the main EU-level tool for borrowing and lending; notes, furthermore, that there has been a great demand, including from Asia, for bonds issued by the EIB; calls on the EIB and its governors, therefore, to maximise that borrowing potential by issuing, in particular, euro-denominated bonds on the global market in order to support long-term objectives and to mitigate the economic slowdown both inside the European Union and in its neighbouring countries as a public policy-driven bank;

39. Notes that EIB borrowing and lending activity both inside and outside the European Union has progressively increased and today constitutes the main EU-level tool for borrowing and lending; notes, furthermore, that there has been a great demand, including from Asia, for bonds issued by the EIB; calls on the EIB and its governors, therefore, to maximise that borrowing potential by issuing, in particular, euro-denominated bonds on the global market in order to support long-term objectives and to mitigate the economic slowdown both inside the European Union and in its neighbouring countries as a public policy-driven bank;

In the case of transactions in which debt instruments, equities, foreign currencies and commodities (excluding repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements and securities or commodities lending and securities or commodities borrowing) are unsettled after their due delivery dates, an institution must calculate the price difference to which it is exposed.

Reference should also be made to the policy of not pursuing under the Community competition rules, cases of minor importance, which the Commission has explained in detail [16].