annual costsmeans the amount, as determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 5, to be recovered by the ECB via the annual supervisory fees for a specific fee period;
annual supervisory feemeans the fee payable in respect of each supervised entity and each supervised group as calculated in accordance with the arrangements set out in Article 10(6);
fee debtormeans the fee-paying credit institution or fee-paying branch determined in accordance with Article 4 and to which the fee notice is addressed;
fee factorsmeans the data related to a supervised entity or a supervised group defined in Article 10(3)(a) which are used to calculate the annual supervisory fee;
fee noticemeans a notice specifying the annual supervisory fee payable by and issued to the relevant fee debtor in accordance with this Regulation;
fee-paying branchmeans a branch established in a participating Member State by a credit institution established in a non-participating Member State;
fee-paying credit institutionmeans a credit institution established in a participating Member State;
first fee periodmeans the period of time between the date on which the ECB assumes the tasks conferred on it under Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 and the end of the calendar year in which the ECB assumes these tasks;
group of fee-paying entitiesmeans (i) a supervised group and (ii) a number of fee-paying branches that are deemed to be one branch in accordance with Article 3(3);
Member Statemeans a Member State of the Union;