“…Over the last fifteen years or so, some results for characterizing metric subregularity/calmness for general set-valued maps have been obtained; see, e.g., [19,20,21,22,59]. Recently the concept of a directional limiting normal cone which is in general a smaller set than the limiting normal cone was introduced [16,10]. Based on the result for general set-valued maps in [10], Gfrerer and Klatte [14,Corollary 1] showed that metric subregularity holds for system (1) atx under the first-order sufficient condition for metric subregularity (FOSCMS): assuming P (x) is C 1 , if for each nonzero direction u satisfying ∇P (x)u ∈ T Λ (P (x)), there is no nonzero ζ such that…”