A. Earmarkable assets shall include, with the exclusion of any other item:
1. lending to euro area credit institutions related to monetary policy operations denominated in euro (asset item 5 of the harmonised balance sheet (HBS));
2. intra-Eurosystem claims equivalent to the transfer of foreign reserve assets other than gold to the ECB under Article 30 of the Statute (part of asset item 9.2 of the HBS);
3. net intra-Eurosystem claims resulting from TARGET transactions (part of asset item 9.4 of the HBS);
4. net intra Eurosystem claims on euro banknotes in circulation including those resulting from the application of Article 4 of this Decision;
5. gold, including claims in respect of gold transferred to the ECB, in an amount permitting each NCB to earmark a proportion of its gold that corresponds to the application of its share in the subscribed capital key to the total amount of gold earmarked by all NCBs. (asset item 1 and part of asset item 9.2 of the HBS).
