To increase legal certainty, and in view of the potential relevance of liabilities arising from future uncertain events, including the outcome of litigation pending at the time of resolution, it is necessary to lay down the treatment those liabilities should receive for the purposes of the application of the bail-in tool. Resolution authorities should draw a distinction between liabilities based on present obligations arising from past events which will result in a loss but the timing or amount of which is uncertain and liabilities that might arise in the future but would not result in a loss or that might arise in the future only if an uncertain event occurs.
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