Abstract. We characterize the bounded linear operators T satisfying generalized a-Browder's theorem, or generalized a-Weyl's theorem, by means of localized SVEP, as well as by means of the quasi-nilpotent part H 0 (λI − T ) as λ belongs to certain sets of C. In the last part we give a general framework in which generalized a-Weyl's theorem follows for several classes of operators.1. Preliminaries. Let L(X) denote the space of bounded linear operators on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space X. For T ∈ L(X), denote by α(T ) the dimension of the kernel ker T , and by β(T ) the codimension of the range T (X). The operator T ∈ L(X) is called upper semiFredholm if α(T ) < ∞ and T (X) is closed, and lower semi-Fredholm if β(T ) < ∞. If T is either upper or lower semi-Fredholm then it is said to be semi-Fredholm; finally, T is a Fredholm operator if it is both upper and lower semi-Fredholm. If T ∈ L(X) is semi-Fredholm, then its index is defined by ind T := α(T ) − β(T ).For every T ∈ L(X) and a nonnegative integer n we shall denote by T [n] the restriction of T to T n (X) viewed as a map from T n (X) into itself (we set T