(a)if a Member State has availed itself of the option provided for in Article 99(5) of this Directive to use the funds of Deposit Guarantee Scheme for the purposes of Article 92 of this Directive, the contribution from each institution shall be pro-rata to the amount of its liabilities excluding own funds and deposits guaranteed under Directive 94/19/EC with respect to the total liabilities, excluding own funds and deposits guaranteed under Directive 94/19/EC, of all the institutions authorised in the territory of the Member State.

Can funds which bank A delivers to bank B, and which B must repay A on a predetermined date, together with interest which has been specially negotiated, be regarded as a deposit in the sense of Article 1(1) of Directive 94/19/EC on deposit-guarantee schemes, even though the funds, when they reach B, are not placed in a special account in A’s name, B has not issued any special documents to A recording the receipt of the funds and has not paid premiums in respect of the funds to the Depositors’ and Investors’ Guarantee Fund and the funds have not been entered as a deposit in B’s books? It is assumed in this question that banks A and B each hold operating licen ...[+++]ces as commercial banks in different States in the European Economic Area.

The administrative burden for financial institutions is high, which compels non-banking providers of micro-credit to weigh up the advantages of having a banking licence (and thereby access to relatively cheap deposit funding) against the disadvantages of being a regulated entity.

3. In accordance with Article 37(2) of Annex IV to the ACP-EC Agreement, deposits in accounts with financial institutions in the ACP States and the OCTs shall bear no interest and the latter shall receive no remuneration for their services.

In accordance with Article 1(6) of the Internal Agreement, deposits in accounts with financial institutions in the Member States shall bear interest.

In order to demonstrate that the funds collected are substantially stable over time, Italy points out that the standard deviation divided by the average of the deposit balances, which is a measure of the volatility of the deposit with the Treasury, diminished from 8 % in 2002 to 5 % in 2005; that the weight in average total deposits of the stable component in the deposits, which Italy defines for any one year as the minimum amount of deposits in that year, rose over the same period from 83,8 % to 89,5 %; and that the weight in average total deposits of the volatile component, defined as the difference between the average deposits and t ...[+++]he minimum deposits in the particular year, fell over the same period from 16,2 % to 10,5 %.