14 min read · EBA reporting framework 4.2 · Updated 10 November 2026

Environmental, social and governance risks: every EBA validation rule in plain words (ESG)

Environmental, social and governance risks (ESG) is a return in EBA reporting framework 4.2, with templates D 01.00 to D 10.00.

EBA's 4.2 package has 254 validation rules for it. Line4 Check runs 228 of them (3,889 written-out checks): 0 can block a filing and 228 are warnings. EBA has switched 26 off.

228rules Line4 Check runs
0can block a filing
228warnings
3,889written-out checks

The rules, by template

Each rule in plain words, its code in brackets. Open one for what to do if your filing fails it. A rule that reads more than one template is listed under the first. Rules are warnings unless marked blocking.

Banking book- Indicators of potential climate Change transition risk: Credit quality of exposures by sector, emissions and residual maturity (D 01.00)49 rules
Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change transition risk: Loans collateralised by immovable property - Energy efficiency of the collateral (I) (D 02.00.a)47 rules
Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change transition risk: Loans collateralised by immovable property - Energy efficiency of the collateral (II) (D 02.00.b)1 rule
Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change transition risk: Exposures to top 20 carbon-intensive firms (D 04.00)3 rules
Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change physical risk: Exposures subject to physical risk (I) (D 05.00.a)5 rules
Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change physical risk: Exposures subject to physical risk (II) (D 05.00.b)2 rules
Summary of GAR KPIs (gar) (I) (D 06.00.a)6 rules
Summary of GAR KPIs (cov) (II) (D 06.00.b)2 rules
Mitigating actions: Assets for the calculation of GAR (I) (D 07.00.a)52 rules
Mitigating actions: Assets for the calculation of GAR (II) (D 07.00.b)14 rules
GAR (%) (stock) (I) (D 08.00.a)4 rules
GAR (%) (stock) (II) (D 08.00.b)1 rule
GAR (%) (flow) (III) (D 08.00.c)4 rules
GAR (%) (flow) (IV) (D 08.00.d)1 rule
GAR (%) (coverage) (V) (D 08.00.e)1 rule
Mitigating actions: Assets for the calculation of BTAR (D 09.01)26 rules
BTAR % (stock) (I) (D 09.02.a)2 rules
BTAR % (flow) (II) (D 09.02.b)2 rules
BTAR % (cov-btar) (III) (D 09.02.c)1 rule
BTAR % (cov-gar) (IV) (D 09.02.d)1 rule
Summary table - BTAR % (btar) (I) (D 09.03.a)2 rules
Summary table - BTAR % (cov) (II) (D 09.03.b)1 rule
Other climate change mitigating actions that are not covered in the EU Taxonomy (D 10.00)1 rule

Templates with no rule of their own

Rules on other templates can still read them.

  • Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change transition risk: Alignment metrics (IAE/NACE codes) (D 03.01)
  • Banking book - Indicators of potential climate change transition risk: Alignment metrics (D 03.02)
26 rules EBA has switched off

EBA has switched these off, in its 4.2 severity package or since then in its list of validation rules (latest update 12 October 2026): they do not apply to 4.2 filings.

v12723_m, v12724_m, v12726_m, v12728_m, v16080_m, v23942_h, v89254_m, v89257_m, v89269_m, v89292_m, v89293_m, v89311_m, v89313_m, v89314_m, v89320_m, v89325_m, v89326_m, v89327_m, v89328_m, v89332_m, v89381_m, v89397_m, v89785_h, v89786_h, v89787_h, v89788_h

Checks like this one, run at the point of submission, are the first step to real-time supervision. See every return on EBA validation rules in plain words.