The governments of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg have extended a temporary guarantee on up to €45 billion of new debt issuance by Dexia Crédit Local (DCL). We have assessed the guarantee and believe it meets our criteria for irrevocability, unconditionality, and timeliness. We are therefore rating DCL's €35 billion French certificate of deposit program 'A-1+' and its €5 billion French negotiable medium-term note program 'AA'. The 'AA' long-term issue rating is on CreditWatch negative, mirroring that on the Kingdom of Belgium. MILAN (Standard&Poor's) Dec. 22, 2011--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that it has assessed the temporary guarantee agreement between Dexia S.A. and Dexia Crédit Local (DCL), and the Kingdom of Belgium (AA/Watch Neg/A-1+), the Republic of