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Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance
Consolidated text: Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance
Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance
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REGULATION (EU) No 909/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (OJ L 257 28.8.2014, p. 1) |
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REGULATION (EU) 2016/1033 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 June 2016 |
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REGULATION (EU) 2022/858 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May 2022 |
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REGULATION (EU) No 909/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 23 July 2014
on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012
(Text with EEA relevance)
TITLE I
SUBJECT MATTER, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS
Article 1
Subject matter and scope
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
‘central securities depository’ or ‘CSD’ means a legal person that operates a securities settlement system referred to in point (3) of Section A of the Annex and provides at least one other core service listed in Section A of the Annex;
‘third-country CSD’ means any legal entity established in a third country that provides a similar service to the core service referred to in point (3) of Section A of the Annex and performs at least one other core service listed in Section A of the Annex;
‘immobilisation’ means the act of concentrating the location of physical securities in a CSD in a way that enables subsequent transfers to be made by book entry;
‘dematerialised form’ means the fact that financial instruments exist only as book entry records;
‘receiving CSD’ means the CSD which receives the request of another CSD to have access to its services through a CSD link;
‘requesting CSD’ means the CSD which requests access to the services of another CSD through a CSD link;
‘settlement’ means the completion of a securities transaction where it is concluded with the aim of discharging the obligations of the parties to that transaction through the transfer of cash or securities, or both;
‘financial instruments’ or ‘securities’ means financial instruments as defined in point (15) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘transfer order’ means transfer order as defined in the second indent of point (i) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC;
‘securities settlement system’ means a system under the first, second and third indents of point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC that is not operated by a central counterparty whose activity consists of the execution of transfer orders;
‘settlement internaliser’ means any institution, including one authorised in accordance with Directive 2013/36/EU or with Directive 2014/65/EU, which executes transfer orders on behalf of clients or on its own account other than through a securities settlement system;
‘intended settlement date’ means the date that is entered into the securities settlement system as the settlement date and on which the parties to a securities transaction agree that settlement is to take place;
‘settlement period’ means the time period between the trade date and the intended settlement date;
‘business day’ means business day as defined in point (n) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC;
‘settlement fail’ means the non-occurrence of settlement, or partial settlement of a securities transaction on the intended settlement date, due to a lack of securities or cash and regardless of the underlying cause;
‘central counterparty’ or ‘CCP’ means a CCP as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012;
‘competent authority’ means the authority designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 11, unless otherwise specified in this Regulation;
‘relevant authority’ means any authority referred to in Article 12;
‘participant’ means any participant, as defined in point (f) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC in a securities settlement system;
‘participation’ means participation within the meaning of the first sentence of point (2) of Article 2 of Directive 2013/34/EU, or the ownership, direct or indirect, of 20 % or more of the voting rights or capital of an undertaking;
‘control’ means the relationship between two undertakings as described in Article 22 of Directive 2013/34/EU;
‘subsidiary’ means a subsidiary undertaking within the meaning of Article 2(10) and Article 22 of Directive 2013/34/EU;
‘home Member State’ means the Member State in which a CSD is established;
‘host Member State’ means the Member State, other than the home Member State, in which a CSD has a branch or provides CSD services;
‘branch’ means a place of business other than the head office which is a part of a CSD, which has no legal personality and which provides CSD services for which the CSD has been authorised;
‘default’, in relation to a participant, means a situation where insolvency proceedings, as defined in point (j) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC, are opened against a participant;
‘delivery versus payment’ or ‘DVP’ means a securities settlement mechanism which links a transfer of securities with a transfer of cash in a way that the delivery of securities occurs if and only if the corresponding transfer of cash occurs and vice versa;
‘securities account’ means an account on which securities may be credited or debited;
‘CSD link’ means an arrangement between CSDs whereby one CSD becomes a participant in the securities settlement system of another CSD in order to facilitate the transfer of securities from the participants of the latter CSD to the participants of the former CSD or an arrangement whereby a CSD accesses another CSD indirectly via an intermediary. CSD links include standard links, customised links, indirect links, and interoperable links;
‘standard link’ means a CSD link whereby a CSD becomes a participant in the securities settlement system of another CSD under the same terms and conditions as applicable to any other participant in the securities settlement system operated by the latter;
‘customised link’ means a CSD link whereby a CSD that becomes a participant in the securities settlement system of another CSD is provided with additional specific services to the services normally provided by that CSD to participants in the securities settlement system;
‘indirect link’ means an arrangement between a CSD and a third party other than a CSD, that is a participant in the securities settlement system of another CSD. Such link is set up by a CSD in order to facilitate the transfer of securities to its participants from the participants of another CSD;
‘interoperable link’ means a CSD link whereby CSDs agree to establish mutual technical solutions for settlement in the securities settlement systems that they operate;
‘international open communication procedures and standards’ means internationally accepted standards for communication procedures, such as standardised messaging formats and data representation, which are available on a fair, open and non-discriminatory basis to any interested party;
‘transferable securities’ means transferable securities as defined in point (44) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘shares’ means securities specified in point (44)(a) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘money-market instruments’ means money-market instruments as defined in point (17) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘units in collective investment undertakings’ means units in collective investment undertakings as referred to in point (3) of Section C of Annex I to Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘emission allowance’ means emission allowance as described in point (11) of Section C of Annex I to Directive 2014/65/EU, excluding derivatives in emission allowances;
‘regulated market’ means regulated market as defined in point (21) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘multilateral trading facility’ or ‘MTF’ means multilateral trading facility as defined in point (22) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘trading venue’ means a trading venue as defined in point (24) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘settlement agent’ means settlement agent as defined in point (d) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC;
‘SME growth market’ means an SME growth market as defined in point (12) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
‘management body’ means the body or bodies of a CSD, appointed in accordance with national law, which is empowered to set the CSD’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and which oversees and monitors management decision-making and includes persons who effectively direct the business of the CSD.
Where, according to national law, a management body comprises different bodies with specific functions, the requirements of this Regulation shall apply only to members of the management body to whom the applicable national law assigns the respective responsibility;
‘senior management’ means those natural persons who exercise executive functions within a CSD and who are responsible and accountable to the management body for the day-to-day management of that CSD.
TITLE II
SECURITIES SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER I
Book-entry form
Article 3
Book-entry form
Where transferable securities are transferred following a financial collateral arrangement as defined in point (a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC, those securities shall be recorded in book-entry form in a CSD on or before the intended settlement date, unless they have already been so recorded.
Article 4
Enforcement
CHAPTER II
Settlement periods
Article 5
Intended settlement date
The authorities competent for the supervision of trading venues shall ensure that paragraph 2 is applied.
CHAPTER III
Settlement discipline
Article 6
Measures to prevent settlement fails
Such measures shall at least consist of arrangements between the investment firm and its professional clients as referred to in Annex II to Directive 2014/65/EU to ensure the prompt communication of an allocation of securities to the transaction, confirmation of that allocation and confirmation of the acceptance or rejection of terms in good time before the intended settlement date.
ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB, issue guidelines in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 on the standardised procedures and messaging protocols to be used for complying with the second subparagraph of this paragraph.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 7
Measures to address settlement fails
Before establishing the procedures referred to in the first subparagraph, a CSD shall consult the relevant trading venues and CCPs in respect of which it provides settlement services.
The penalty mechanism referred to in the first subparagraph shall include cash penalties for participants that cause settlement fails (‘failing participants’). Cash penalties shall be calculated on a daily basis for each business day that a transaction fails to be settled after its intended settlement date until the end of a buy-in process referred to in paragraph 3, but no longer than the actual settlement day. The cash penalties shall not be configured as a revenue source for the CSD.
Where the transaction relates to a financial instrument traded on an SME growth market the extension period shall be 15 days unless the SME growth market decides to apply a shorter period.
The following exemptions from the requirement referred to in paragraph 3 shall apply:
based on asset type and liquidity of the financial instruments concerned, the extension period may be increased from four business days up to a maximum of seven business days where a shorter extension period would affect the smooth and orderly functioning of the financial markets concerned;
for operations composed of several transactions including securities repurchase or lending agreements, the buy-in process referred to in paragraph 3 shall not apply where the timeframe of those operations is sufficiently short and renders the buy-in process ineffective.
Cash compensation shall be paid to the receiving participant no later than on the second business day after the end of either the buy-in process referred to in paragraph 3 or the deferral period, where the deferral period was chosen.
Public disclosure of suspensions shall not contain personal data within the meaning of point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 95/46/EC.
Paragraphs 2 to 9 shall apply to all transactions of the financial instruments referred to in Article 5(1) which are admitted to trading or traded on a trading venue or cleared by a CCP as follows:
for transactions cleared by a CCP, the CCP shall be the entity that executes the buy-in according to paragraphs 3 to 8;
for transactions not cleared by a CCP but executed on a trading venue, the trading venue shall include in its internal rules an obligation for its members and its participants to apply the measures referred to in paragraphs 3 to 8;
for all transactions other than those referred to in points (a) and (b) of this subparagraph, CSDs shall include in their internal rules an obligation for their participants to be subject to the measures referred to in paragraphs 3 to 8.
A CSD shall provide the necessary settlement information to CCPs and trading venues to enable them to fulfil their obligations under this paragraph.
Without prejudice to points (a), (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph, CSDs may monitor the execution of buy-ins referred to in those points with respect to multiple settlement instructions, on the same financial instruments and with the same date of expiry of the execution period, with the aim of minimising the number of buy-ins to be executed and thus the impact on the prices of the relevant financial instruments.
ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB, develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify:
the details of the system monitoring settlement fails and the reports on settlement fails referred to in paragraph 1;
the processes for collection and redistribution of cash penalties and any other possible proceeds from such penalties in accordance with paragraph 2;
the details of operation of the appropriate buy-in process referred to in paragraphs 3 to 8, including appropriate time-frames to deliver the financial instrument following the buy-in process referred to in paragraph 3. Such time-frames shall be calibrated taking into account the asset type and liquidity of the financial instruments;
the circumstances under which the extension period could be prolonged according to asset type and liquidity of the financial instruments, in accordance with the conditions referred to in point (a) of paragraph 4 taking into account the criteria for assessing liquidity under point (17) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014;
type of operations and their specific time-frames referred to in point (b) of paragraph 4 that renders buy-in ineffective;
a methodology for the calculation of the cash compensation referred to in paragraph 7;
the conditions under which a participant is deemed consistently and systematically to fail to deliver the financial instruments as referred to in paragraph 9; and
the necessary settlement information referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 10.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 8
Enforcement
CHAPTER IV
Internalised settlement
Article 9
Settlement internalisers
Competent authorities shall without delay transmit the information received under the first subparagraph to ESMA and shall inform ESMA of any potential risk resulting from that settlement activity.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
TITLE III
CENTRAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORIES
CHAPTER I
Authorisation and supervision of CSDs
Article 10
Competent authority
Without prejudice to the oversight by the members of the ESCB referred to in Article 12(1), a CSD shall be authorised and supervised by the competent authority of its home Member State.
Article 11
Designation of the competent authority
Where a Member State designates more than one competent authority, it shall determine their respective roles and shall designate a single authority to be responsible for cooperation with other Member States’ competent authorities, the relevant authorities, ESMA, and EBA, where specifically referred to in this Regulation.
Article 12
Relevant authorities
The following authorities shall be involved in the authorisation and supervision of CSDs where specifically referred to in this Regulation:
the authority responsible for the oversight of the securities settlement system operated by the CSD in the Member State whose law applies to that securities settlement system;
the central banks in the Union issuing the most relevant currencies in which settlement takes place;
where relevant, the central bank in the Union in whose books the cash leg of a securities settlement system operated by the CSD is settled.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 13
Exchange of information
Article 14
Cooperation between authorities
In order to ensure consistent, efficient and effective supervisory practices within the Union, including cooperation between competent authorities and relevant authorities in the different assessments necessary for the application of this Regulation, ESMA may, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB, issue guidelines addressed to competent authorities in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 15
Emergency situations
Without prejudice to the notification procedure provided for in Article 6(3) of Directive 98/26/EC, competent authorities and relevant authorities shall immediately inform ESMA, the European Systemic Risk Board established by Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 2 ) and each other of any emergency situation relating to a CSD, including of any developments in financial markets, which may have an adverse effect on market liquidity, the stability of a currency in which settlement takes place, the integrity of monetary policy or on the stability of the financial system in any of the Member States where the CSD or one of its participants are established.
Article 16
Authorisation of a CSD
Article 17
Procedure for granting authorisation
The competent authority shall, before granting authorisation to the applicant CSD, consult the competent authorities of the other Member State involved in the following cases:
the CSD is a subsidiary of a CSD authorised in another Member State;
the CSD is a subsidiary of the parent undertaking of a CSD authorised in another Member State;
the CSD is controlled by the same natural or legal persons who control a different CSD authorised in another Member State.
The consultation referred to in paragraph 6 shall cover the following:
the suitability of the shareholders and persons referred to in Article 27(6) and the reputation and experience of the persons who effectively direct the business of the CSD referred to in Article 27(1) and (4), where those shareholders and persons are common to the CSD and to a CSD authorised in another Member State;
whether the relations referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 6 between the CSD authorised in another Member State and the applicant CSD do not affect the ability of the latter to comply with the requirements of this Regulation.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 18
Effects of the authorisation
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 19
Extension and outsourcing of activities and services
An authorised CSD shall submit an application for authorisation to the competent authority of its home Member State where it wishes to outsource a core service to a third party under Article 30 or extend its activities to one or more of the following:
additional core services listed in Section A of the Annex, not covered by the initial authorisation;
ancillary services permitted under, but not explicitly listed in Section B of the Annex, not covered by the initial authorisation;
the operation of another securities settlement system;
the settlement of all or part of the cash leg of its securities settlement system in the books of another settlement agent;
setting up an interoperable link, including those with third-country CSDs.
The competent authority shall inform the applicant CSD whether the authorisation has been granted or refused within three months of the submission of a complete application.
Article 20
Withdrawal of authorisation
Without prejudice to any remedial actions or measures under Title V, the competent authority of the home Member State shall withdraw the authorisation in any of the following circumstances, where the CSD:
has not made use of the authorisation during 12 months, expressly renounces the authorisation or has provided no services or performed no activity during the preceding six months;
has obtained the authorisation by making false statements or by any other unlawful means;
no longer complies with the conditions under which authorisation was granted and has not taken the remedial actions requested by the competent authority within a set time-frame;
has seriously or systematically infringed the requirements laid down in this Regulation or, where applicable, in Directive 2014/65/EU or Regulation (EU) No 600/2014.
Article 21
CSD register
Article 22
Review and evaluation
ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB, develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify the following:
the information that the CSD is to provide to the competent authority for the purposes of the review and evaluation referred to in paragraph 1;
the information that the competent authority is to supply to the relevant authorities, as set out in paragraph 7;
the information that the competent authorities referred to in paragraph 8 are to supply one another.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with in Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 23
Freedom to provide services in another Member State
Any CSD wishing to provide the services referred to in paragraph 2 within the territory of another Member State for the first time, or to change the range of those services provided shall communicate the following information to the competent authority of the home Member State:
the Member State in which the CSD intends to operate;
a programme of operations stating in particular the services which the CSD intends to provide;
the currency or currencies that the CSD intends to process;
where there is a branch, the organisational structure of the branch and the names of those responsible for the management of the branch;
where relevant, an assessment of the measures the CSD intends to take to allow its users to comply with the national law referred to in Article 49(1).
The competent authority of the host Member State shall without delay inform the relevant authorities of that Member State of any communication received under the first subparagraph.
The CSD may start providing the services referred to in paragraph 2 in the host Member State under the following conditions:
on receipt of a communication from the competent authority in the host Member State acknowledging receipt by the latter of the communication referred to in paragraph 4 and, where relevant, approving the assessment referred to in point (e) of paragraph 3;
in the absence of any receipt of a communication, after three months from the date of transmission of the communication referred to in paragraph 4.
Article 24
Cooperation between authorities of the home Member State and of the host Member State and peer review
Where a CSD has become of substantial importance for the functioning of the securities markets and the protection of the investors in more than one host Member State, the home Member State may decide that such cooperation arrangements are to include colleges of supervisors.
Where, despite measures taken by the competent authority of the home Member State or because such measures prove inadequate, the CSD persists in acting in infringement of the obligations arising from the provisions of this Regulation, after informing the competent authority of the home Member State, the competent authority of the host Member State shall take all the appropriate measures needed in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Regulation within the territory of the host Member State. ESMA shall be informed of such measures without delay.
The competent authority of the host Member State and of the home Member State may refer the matter to ESMA, which may act in accordance with the powers conferred on it under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
In the context of the peer review referred to in the first subparagraph ESMA shall, where appropriate, also request opinions or advice from the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group referred to in Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 25
Third countries
After consulting the authorities referred to in paragraph 5, ESMA may recognise a third-country CSD that has applied for recognition to provide the services referred to in paragraph 2, where the following conditions are met:
the Commission has adopted a decision in accordance with paragraph 9;
the third-country CSD is subject to effective authorisation, supervision and oversight or, if the securities settlement system is operated by a central bank, oversight, ensuring full compliance with the prudential requirements applicable in that third country;
cooperation arrangements between ESMA and the responsible authorities in that third country (‘responsible third-country authorities’) have been established pursuant to paragraph 10;
where relevant, the third-country CSD takes the necessary measures to allow its users to comply with the relevant national law of the Member State in which the third-country CSD intends to provide CSD services, including the law referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 49(1), and the adequacy of those measures has been confirmed by the competent authorities of the Member State in which the third-country CSD intends to provide CSD services.
When assessing whether the conditions referred to in paragraph 4 are met, ESMA shall consult:
the competent authorities of the Member States in which the third-country CSD intends to provide CSD services, in particular, on how the third-country CSD intends to comply with the requirement referred to in point (d) of paragraph 4;
the relevant authorities;
the responsible third-country authorities entrusted with the authorisation, supervision and oversight of CSDs.
The applicant CSD shall provide ESMA with all information deemed to be necessary for its recognition. Within 30 working days from the receipt of the application, ESMA shall assess whether the application is complete. If the application is not complete, ESMA shall set a time limit by which the applicant CSD has to provide additional information.
The competent authorities of the Member States in which the third-country CSD intends to provide CSD services shall assess the compliance of the third-country CSD with the law referred to in point (d) of paragraph 4 and inform ESMA with a fully reasoned decision whether the compliance is met or not within three months from the receipt of all the necessary information from ESMA.
The recognition decision shall be based on the criteria laid down in paragraph 4.
Within six months from the submission of a complete application, ESMA shall inform the applicant CSD in writing with a fully reasoned decision whether the recognition has been granted or refused.
The competent authorities of the Member States in which the third-country CSD, duly recognised under paragraph 4, provides CSD services, in close cooperation with ESMA, may request the responsible third-country authorities to:
report periodically on the third-country CSD’s activities in those host Member States, including for the purpose of collecting statistics;
communicate, within an appropriate time-frame, the identity of the issuers and participants in the securities settlement systems operated by the third-country CSD which provides services in that host Member State and any other relevant information concerning the activities of that third-country CSD in the host Member State.
ESMA shall withdraw the recognition of that CSD where the conditions laid down in paragraph 4 are no longer met, or in the circumstances referred to in Article 20.
In making the determination referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission may also consider whether the legal and supervisory arrangements of a third country reflect the internationally agreed CPSS-IOSCO standards, in so far as the latter do not conflict with the requirements laid down in this Regulation.
In accordance with Article 33(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010, ESMA shall establish cooperation arrangements with the responsible third-country authorities whose legal and supervisory frameworks have been recognised as equivalent to this Regulation in accordance with paragraph 9. Such arrangements shall specify at least:
the mechanism for the exchange of information between ESMA, the competent authorities of the host Member State and the third-country responsible authorities, including access to all information regarding the CSDs authorised in third countries that is requested by ESMA and in particular access to information in the cases referred to in paragraph 7;
the mechanism for prompt notification of ESMA where a third-country responsible authority deems a CSD that it is supervising to infringe the conditions of its authorisation or of other applicable law;
the procedures concerning the coordination of supervisory activities including, where appropriate, on-site inspections.
Where a cooperation agreement provides for transfers of personal data by a Member State, such transfers shall comply with the provisions of Directive 95/46/EC and where a cooperation agreement provides for transfers of personal data by ESMA, such transfers shall comply with the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 45/2001.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
CHAPTER II
Requirements for CSDs
Article 26
General provisions
ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB, develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying at the CSD level and at the group level as referred to in paragraph 7:
the monitoring tools for the risks of the CSDs referred to in paragraph 1;
the responsibilities of the key personnel in respect of the risks of the CSDs referred to in paragraph 1;
the potential conflicts of interest referred to in paragraph 3;
the audit methods referred to in paragraph 6; and
the circumstances in which it would be appropriate, taking into account potential conflicts of interest between the members of the user committee and the CSD, to share audit findings with the user committee in accordance with paragraph 6.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 27
Senior management, management body and shareholders
A CSD shall:
provide the competent authority with, and make public, information regarding the ownership of the CSD, and in particular, the identity and scale of interests of any parties in a position to exercise control over the operation of the CSD;
inform and seek approval from its competent authority of any decision to transfer ownership rights which give rise to a change in the identity of the persons exercising control over the operation of the CSD. After receiving approval from its competent authority, the CSD shall make public the transfer of ownership rights.
Any natural or legal person shall inform without undue delay the CSD and its competent authority of a decision to acquire or dispose of its ownership rights that give rise to a change in the identity of the persons exercising control over the operation of the CSD.
Article 28
User committee
Article 29
Record keeping
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 30
Outsourcing
Where a CSD outsources services or activities to a third party, it shall remain fully responsible for discharging all of its obligations under this Regulation and shall comply at all times with the following conditions:
outsourcing does not result in the delegation of its responsibility;
the relationship and obligations of the CSD towards its participants or issuers are not altered;
the conditions for the authorisation of the CSD do not effectively change;
outsourcing does not prevent the exercise of supervisory and oversight functions, including on-site access to acquire any relevant information needed to fulfil those functions;
outsourcing does not result in depriving the CSD of the systems and controls necessary to manage the risks it faces;
the CSD retains the expertise and resources necessary for evaluating the quality of the services provided, the organisational and capital adequacy of the service provider, for supervising the outsourced services effectively and for managing the risks associated with the outsourcing on an ongoing basis;
the CSD has direct access to the relevant information of the outsourced services;
the service provider cooperates with the competent authority and the relevant authorities in connection with the outsourced activities;
the CSD ensures that the service provider meets the standards set down by the relevant data protection law which would apply if the service providers were established in the Union. The CSD is responsible for ensuring that those standards are set out in a contract between the parties and that those standards are maintained.
Article 31
Services provided by parties other than CSDs
ESMA shall include such information in the CSD register referred to in Article 21.
Article 32
General provisions
Article 33
Requirements for participation
In the event of a refusal, the requesting participant has the right to complain to the competent authority of the CSD that has refused access.
That competent authority shall duly examine the complaint by assessing the reasons for refusal and shall provide the requesting participant with a reasoned reply.
That competent authority shall consult the competent authority of the place of establishment of the requesting participant on its assessment of the complaint. Where the authority of the requesting participant disagrees with the assessment provided, any one of the two competent authorities may refer the matter to ESMA, which may act in accordance with the powers conferred on it under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Where the refusal by the CSD to grant access to the requesting participant is deemed to be unjustified, the competent authority of the CSD that has refused access shall issue an order requiring that CSD to grant access to the requesting participant.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 34
Transparency
Article 35
Communication procedures with participants and other market infrastructures
CSDs shall use in their communication procedures with participants of the securities settlement systems they operate, and with the market infrastructures they interface with international open communication procedures and standards for messaging and reference data in order to facilitate efficient recording, payment and settlement.
Article 36
General provisions
For each securities settlement system it operates a CSD shall have appropriate rules and procedures, including robust accounting practices and controls, to help ensure the integrity of securities issues, and reduce and manage the risks associated with the safekeeping and settlement of transactions in securities.
Article 37
Integrity of the issue
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 38
Protection of securities of participants and those of their clients
However, a CSD and its participants shall provide individual clients segregation for citizens and residents of, and legal persons established in, a Member State where required under the national law of the Member State under which the securities are constituted as it stands at 17 September 2014. That obligation shall apply as long as the national law is not amended or repealed and its objectives are still valid.
Article 39
Settlement finality
Article 40
Cash settlement
Article 41
Participant default rules and procedures
Article 42
General requirements
A CSD shall adopt a sound risk-management framework for comprehensively managing legal, business, operational and other direct or indirect risks, including measures to mitigate fraud and negligence.
Article 43
Legal risks
Article 44
General business risk
A CSD shall have robust management and control systems as well as IT tools in order to identify, monitor and manage general business risks, including losses from poor execution of business strategy, cash flows and operating expenses.
Article 45
Operational risks
It shall also inform the competent authority and relevant authorities without delay of any operational incidents resulting from such risks.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 46
Investment policy
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 47
Capital requirements
Capital, together with retained earnings and reserves of a CSD, shall be proportional to the risks stemming from the activities of the CSD. It shall be at all times sufficient to:
ensure that the CSD is adequately protected against operational, legal, custody, investment and business risks so that the CSD can continue to provide services as a going concern;
ensure an orderly winding-down or restructuring of the CSD’s activities over an appropriate time span of at least six months under a range of stress scenarios.
A CSD shall maintain a plan for the following:
the raising of additional capital should its equity capital approach or fall below the requirements laid down in paragraph 1;
ensuring the orderly winding-down or restructuring of its operations and services where the CSD is unable to raise new capital.
The plan shall be approved by the management body or an appropriate committee of the management body and updated regularly. Each update of the plan shall be provided to the competent authority. The competent authority may require the CSD to take additional measures or to make any alternative provision where the competent authority considers that the CSD’s plan is insufficient.
EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.
Article 48
CSD links
A link shall be supported by an appropriate contractual arrangement that sets out the respective rights and obligations of the linked CSDs and, where necessary, of the CSDs’ participants. A contractual arrangement with cross-jurisdictional implications shall provide for an unambiguous choice of law that govern each aspect of the link’s operations.
Interoperable securities settlement systems and CSDs, which use a common settlement infrastructure shall establish identical moments of:
entry of transfer orders into the system;
irrevocability of transfer orders.
The securities settlement systems and CSDs referred to in the first subparagraph shall use equivalent rules concerning the moment of finality of transfers of securities and cash.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Powers is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
CHAPTER III
Access to CSDs
Article 49
Freedom to issue in a CSD authorised in the Union
Without prejudice to the issuer’s right referred to in the first subparagraph, the corporate or similar law of the Member State under which the securities are constituted shall continue to apply.
Member States shall ensure that a list of key relevant provisions of their law, as referred to in the second subparagraph, is compiled. Competent authorities shall communicate that list to ESMA by 18 December 2014. ESMA shall publish the list by 18 January 2015.
The CSD may charge a reasonable commercial fee for the provision of its services to issuers on a cost-plus basis, unless otherwise agreed by both parties.
In the case of a refusal, the requesting issuer shall have the right to complain to the competent authority of the CSD that refuses to provide its services.
The competent authority of that CSD shall duly examine the complaint by assessing the reasons for refusal provided by the CSD and shall provide the issuer with a reasoned reply.
The competent authority of the CSD shall consult the competent authority of the place of establishment of the requesting issuer on its assessment of the complaint. Where the competent authority of the place of establishment of the requesting issuer disagrees with that assessment, any one of the two competent authorities may refer the matter to ESMA, which may act in accordance with the powers conferred on it under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Where the refusal by the CSD to provide its services to an issuer is deemed to be unjustified, the responsible competent authority shall issue an order requiring the CSD to provide its services to the requesting issuer.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 50
Standard link access
A CSD shall have the right to become a participant of another CSD and set up a standard link with that CSD in accordance with Article 33 and subject to the prior notification of the CSD link provided under Article 19(5).
Article 51
Customised link access
Article 52
Procedure for CSD links
Where a CSD refuses access, it shall provide the requesting CSD with full reasons for its refusal.
In the case of a refusal, the requesting CSD has the right to complain to the competent authority of the CSD that has refused access.
The competent authority of the receiving CSD shall duly examine the complaint by assessing the reasons for refusal and shall provide the requesting CSD with a reasoned reply.
The competent authority of the receiving CSD shall consult the competent authority of the requesting CSD and the relevant authority of the requesting CSD referred to in point (a) of Article 12(1) on its assessment of the complaint. Where any of the authorities of the requesting CSD disagrees with the assessment provided, any one of the authorities may refer the matter to ESMA, which may act in accordance with the powers conferred on it under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Where the refusal by the CSD to grant access to the requesting CSD is deemed to be unjustified, the competent authority of the receiving CSD shall issue an order requiring that CSD to grant access to the requesting CSD.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 53
Access between a CSD and another market infrastructure
A CSD shall provide access to its securities settlement systems on a non-discriminatory and transparent basis to a CCP or a trading venue and may charge a reasonable commercial fee for such access on a cost-plus basis, unless otherwise agreed by both parties.
A party that refuses access shall provide the requesting party with full written reasons for such refusal based on a comprehensive risk assessment. In the case of a refusal, the requesting party has the right to complain to the competent authority of the party that has refused access.
The competent authority of the receiving party and the relevant authority referred to in point (a) of Article 12(1) shall duly examine the complaint by assessing the reasons for refusal and shall provide the requesting party with a reasoned reply.
The competent authority of the receiving party shall consult the competent authority of the requesting party and the relevant authority referred to in point (a) of Article 12(1) on its assessment of the complaint. Where any of the authorities of the requesting party disagrees with the assessment provided, any of them may refer the matter to ESMA, which may act in accordance with the powers conferred on it under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Where the refusal by a party to grant access is deemed to be unjustified, the responsible competent authority shall issue an order requiring that party to grant access to its services within three months.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
TITLE IV
PROVISION OF BANKING-TYPE ANCILLARY SERVICES FOR CSD PARTICIPANTS
Article 54
Authorisation and designation to provide banking-type ancillary services
A CSD that intends to settle the cash leg of all or part of its securities settlement system in accordance with Article 40(2) or otherwise wishes to provide any banking-type ancillary services referred to in paragraph 1 shall be authorised either:
to offer such services itself under the conditions specified in this Article; or
to designate for that purpose one or more credit institutions authorised in accordance with Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU.
Where a CSD seeks to provide any banking-type ancillary services from within the same legal entity as the legal entity operating the securities settlement system the authorisation referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted only where the following conditions are met:
the CSD is authorised as a credit institution as provided for in Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU;
the CSD meets the prudential requirements laid down in Article 59(1), (3) and (4) and the supervisory requirements laid down in Article 60;
the authorisation referred to in point (a) of this subparagraph is used only to provide the banking-type ancillary services referred to in Section C of the Annex and not to carry out any other activities;
the CSD is subject to an additional capital surcharge that reflects the risks, including credit and liquidity risks, resulting from the provision of intra-day credit, inter alia, to the participants in a securities settlement system or other users of CSD services;
the CSD reports at least monthly to the competent authority and annually as a part of its public disclosure as required under Part Eight of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on the extent and management of intra-day liquidity risk in accordance with point (j) of Article 59(4) of this Regulation;
the CSD has submitted to the competent authority an adequate recovery plan to ensure continuity of its critical operations, including in situations where liquidity or credit risk crystallises as a result of the provision of banking-type ancillary services.
In the case of conflicting provisions laid down in this Regulation, in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 and in Directive 2013/36/EU, the CSD referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph shall comply with the stricter requirements on prudential supervision. The regulatory technical standards referred to in Articles 47 and 59 of this Regulation shall clarify the cases of conflicting provisions.
Where a CSD seeks to designate a credit institution to provide any banking-type ancillary services from within a separate legal entity which may be part of the same group of undertakings ultimately controlled by the same parent undertaking or not, the authorisation referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted only where the following conditions are met:
the separate legal entity is authorised as a credit institution as provided for in Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU;
the separate legal entity meets the prudential requirements laid down in Article 59(1), (3) and (4) and supervisory requirements laid down in Article 60;
the separate legal entity does not itself carry out any of the core services referred to in Section A of the Annex;
the authorisation referred to in point (a) is used only to provide the banking-type ancillary services referred to in Section C of the Annex and not to carry out any other activities;
the separate legal entity is subject to an additional capital surcharge that reflects the risks, including credit and liquidity risks, resulting from the provision of intra-day credit, inter alia, to the participants in a securities settlement system or other users of CSD services;
the separate legal entity reports at least monthly to the competent authority and annually as a part of its public disclosure as required under Part Eight of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on the extent and management of intra-day liquidity risk in accordance with point (j) of Article 59(4) of this Regulation; and
the separate legal entity has submitted to the competent authority an adequate recovery plan to ensure continuity of its critical operations, including in situations where liquidity or credit risk crystallises as a result of the provision of banking-type ancillary services from within a separate legal entity.
The competent authority shall monitor at least once per year that the threshold defined in the first subparagraph is respected and report its findings to ESMA. Where the competent authority determines that the threshold has been exceeded, it shall require the CSD concerned to seek authorisation in accordance with paragraph 4. The CSD concerned shall submit its application for authorisation within six months.
EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.
Article 55
Procedure for granting and refusing authorisation to provide banking-type ancillary services
From the moment when the application is considered to be complete, the competent authority shall transmit all information included in the application to the following authorities:
the relevant authorities;
the competent authority referred to in point (40) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;
the competent authorities in the Member States where the CSD has established interoperable links with another CSD except where the CSD has established interoperable links referred to in Article 19(5);
the competent authorities in the host Member State where the activities of the CSD are of substantial importance for the functioning of the securities markets and the protection of investors within the meaning of Article 24(4);
the competent authorities responsible for the supervision of the participants of the CSD that are established in the three Member States with the largest settlement values in the CSD’s securities settlement system on an aggregate basis over a one-year period;
ESMA; and
EBA.
Where at least one of the authorities referred to in points (a) to (e) of paragraph 4 issues a negative reasoned opinion, the competent authority wishing to grant the authorisation shall within 30 days provide the authorities referred to in points (a) to (e) of paragraph 4 with a reasoned decision addressing the negative opinion.
Where 30 days after that decision has been presented any of the authorities referred to in points (a) to (e) of paragraph 4 issues a negative opinion and the competent authority still wishes to grant the authorisation any of the authorities that issued a negative opinion may refer the matter to ESMA for assistance under point (c) of Article 31 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Where 30 days after referral to ESMA the issue is not settled, the competent authority wishing to grant the authorisation shall take the final decision and provide a detailed explanation of its decision in writing to the authorities referred to in points (a) to (e) of paragraph 4.
Where the competent authority wishes to refuse authorisation, the matter shall not be referred to ESMA.
Negative opinions shall state in writing the full and detailed reasons why the requirements laid down in this Regulation or other parts of Union law are not met.
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 56
Extension of the banking-type ancillary services
Article 57
Withdrawal of authorisation
Without prejudice to any remedial actions or measures under Title V, the competent authority of the CSD’s home Member State shall withdraw the authorisations referred to in Article 54 in any of the following circumstances:
where the CSD has not made use of the authorisation within 12 months, expressly renounces the authorisation or where the designated credit institution has provided no services or performed no activity for the preceding six months;
where the CSD has obtained the authorisation by making false statements or by any other unlawful means;
where the CSD or the designated credit institution is no longer in compliance with the conditions under which authorisation was granted and has not taken the remedial actions requested by the competent authority within a set time-frame;
where the CSD or the designated credit institution has seriously and systematically infringed the requirements laid down in this Regulation.
Article 58
CSD register
ESMA shall introduce in the register, that it is required to make available on its dedicated website in accordance with Article 21(3), the following information:
the name of each CSD which was subject to a decision under Articles 54, 56 and 57;
the name of each designated credit institution;
the list of banking-type ancillary services that a designated credit institution or a CSD authorised under Article 54 is authorised to provide for the CSD’s participants.
Article 59
Prudential requirements applicable to credit institutions or CSDs authorised to provide banking-type ancillary services
A credit institution designated under point (b) of Article 54(2) or a CSD authorised under point (a) of Article 54(2) to provide banking-type ancillary services shall comply with the following specific prudential requirements for the credit risks related to those services in respect of each securities settlement system:
it shall establish a robust framework to manage the corresponding credit risks;
it shall identify the sources of such credit risks, frequently and regularly, measure and monitor corresponding credit exposures and use appropriate risk-management tools to control those risks;
it shall fully cover corresponding credit exposures to individual borrowing participants using collateral and other equivalent financial resources;
if collateral is used to manage its corresponding credit risk, it shall accept highly liquid collateral with minimal credit and market risk; it may use other types of collateral in specific situations if an appropriate haircut is applied;
it shall establish and apply appropriately conservative haircuts and concentration limits on collateral values constituted to cover the credit exposures referred to in point (c), taking into account the objective of ensuring that collateral can be liquidated promptly without significant adverse price effects;
it shall set limits on its corresponding credit exposures;
it shall analyse and plan for how to address any potential residual credit exposures, and adopt rules and procedures to implement such plans;
it shall provide credit only to participants that have cash accounts with it;
it shall provide for effective reimbursement procedures of intra-day credit and discourage overnight credit through the application of sanctioning rates which act as an effective deterrent.
A credit institution designated under point (b) of Article 54(2) or a CSD authorised under point (a) of Article 54(2) to provide banking-type ancillary services shall comply with the following specific prudential requirements for the liquidity risks relating to those services in respect of each securities settlement system:
it shall have a robust framework and tools to measure, monitor, and manage its liquidity risks, including intra-day liquidity risks, for each currency of the security settlement system for which it acts as settlement agent;
it shall measure and monitor on an ongoing and timely basis, and at least daily, its liquidity needs and the level of liquid assets it holds; in doing so, it shall determine the value of its available liquid assets taking into account appropriate haircuts on those assets;
it shall have sufficient liquid resources in all relevant currencies for a timely provision of settlement services under a wide range of potential stress scenarios including, but not limited to the liquidity risk generated by the default of at least one participant, including its parent undertakings and subsidiaries, to which it has the largest exposures;
it shall mitigate the corresponding liquidity risks with qualifying liquid resources in each currency such as cash at the central bank of issue and at other creditworthy financial institutions, committed lines of credit or similar arrangements and highly liquid collateral or investments that are readily available and convertible into cash with prearranged and highly reliable funding arrangements, even in extreme but plausible market conditions and it shall identify, measure and monitor its liquidity risk stemming from the various financial institutions used for the management of its liquidity risks;
where prearranged funding arrangements are used, it shall select only creditworthy financial institutions as liquidity providers; it shall establish and apply appropriate concentration limits for each of the corresponding liquidity providers including its parent undertaking and subsidiaries;
it shall determine and test the sufficiency of the corresponding resources by regular and rigorous stress testing;
it shall analyse and plan for how to address any unforeseen and potentially uncovered liquidity shortfalls, and adopt rules and procedures to implement such plans;
where practical and available, without prejudice to the eligibility rules of the central bank, it shall have access to central bank accounts and other central bank services to enhance its management of liquidity risks and Union credit institutions shall deposit the corresponding cash balances on dedicated accounts with Union central banks of issue;
it shall have prearranged and highly reliable arrangements to ensure that it can liquidate in a timely fashion the collateral provided to it by a defaulting client;
it shall report regularly to the authorities referred to in Article 60(1), and disclose to the public, as to how it measures, monitors and manages its liquidity risks, including intra-day liquidity risks.
EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.
Article 60
Supervision of designated credit institutions and CSDs authorised to provide banking-type ancillary services
The competent authorities referred to in the first subparagraph shall also be responsible for the supervision of designated credit institutions and CSDs referred to in that subparagraph as regards their compliance with the prudential requirements referred to in Article 59 of this Regulation.
The competent authorities referred to in the first subparagraph shall regularly, and at least once a year, assess whether the designated credit institution or CSD authorised to provide banking-type ancillary services complies with Article 59 and shall inform the competent authority of the CSD which shall then inform the authorities referred to in Article 55(4), of the results, including any remedial actions or penalties, of its supervision under this paragraph.
The competent authority of the CSD shall, after consulting competent authorities referred to paragraph 1, review and evaluate at least on an annual basis the following:
in the case referred to in point (b) of Article 54(2), whether all the necessary arrangements between the designated credit institutions and the CSD allow them to meet their obligations as laid down in this Regulation;
in the case referred to in point (a) of Article 54(2), whether the arrangements relating to the authorisation to provide banking-type ancillary services allow the CSD to meet its obligations as laid down in this Regulation.
The competent authority of the CSD shall regularly, and at least once a year, inform the authorities referred to in Article 55(4) of the results, including any remedial actions or penalties, of its review and evaluation under this paragraph.
Where a CSD designates an authorised credit institution in accordance with Article 54, in view of the protection of the participants in the securities settlement systems it operates, a CSD shall ensure that it has access from the credit institution it designates to all necessary information for the purpose of this Regulation and it shall report any infringements thereof to the competent authority of the CSD and to competent authorities referred to in paragraph 1.
TITLE V
SANCTIONS
Article 61
Administrative sanctions and other measures
Member States may decide not to lay down rules for administrative sanctions as referred to in the first subparagraph where the infringements referred to in that subparagraph are already subject to criminal sanctions in their national law by 18 September 2016. Where they so decide, Member States shall notify, in detail, to the Commission and to ESMA, the relevant parts of their criminal law.
By 18 September 2016, the Member States shall notify the rules referred to in the first subparagraph to the Commission and ESMA. Member States shall notify the Commission and ESMA without undue delay of any subsequent amendments thereto.
Where Member States have chosen, in accordance with paragraph 1, to lay down criminal sanctions for the infringements of the provisions referred to in Article 63 their competent authorities shall provide ESMA annually with anonymised and aggregated data regarding all criminal investigations undertaken and criminal penalties imposed. ESMA shall publish data on criminal sanctions imposed in an annual report.
Competent authorities shall exercise their functions and powers in accordance with their national frameworks:
directly;
in collaboration with other authorities;
under their responsibility by delegation to entities to which tasks have been delegated according to this Regulation; or
by application to the competent judicial authorities.
Article 62
Publication of decisions
Where the decision to impose a sanction or other measure is subject to an appeal before the relevant judicial or other relevant authorities, competent authorities shall, without undue delay, also publish on their official websites information on the appeal status and outcome thereof. Moreover, any decision annulling a previous decision to impose a sanction or a measure shall also be published.
Where the publication of the identity of the legal persons or of the personal data of the natural persons is considered by the competent authority to be disproportionate following a case-by-case assessment conducted on the proportionality of the publication of such data, or where publication jeopardises the stability of financial markets or an ongoing investigation, Member States shall ensure that competent authorities do one of the following:
delay the publication of the decision to impose the sanction or other measure until the moment when the reasons for non-publication cease to exist;
publish the decision to impose the sanction or other measure on an anonymous basis in a manner which is in conformity with national law, if such anonymous publication ensures effective protection of the personal data;
not publish the decision to impose a sanction or other measure at all in the event that the options set out in points (a) and (b) above are considered to be insufficient to ensure:
that the stability of financial markets would not be put in jeopardy;
the proportionality of the publication of such decisions with regard to measures which are deemed to be of a minor nature.
In the case of a decision to publish a sanction or other measure on an anonymous basis, the publication of the relevant data may be postponed for a reasonable period if it is envisaged that within that period the reasons for anonymous publication will cease to exist.
Competent authorities shall inform ESMA of all administrative sanctions imposed but not published in accordance with point (c) of the third subparagraph including any appeal in relation thereto and the outcome thereof. Member States shall ensure that competent authorities receive information and the final judgement in relation to any criminal sanction imposed and submit it to ESMA. ESMA shall maintain a central database of sanctions communicated to it solely for the purposes of exchanging information between competent authorities. That database shall be accessible only to competent authorities and it shall be updated on the basis of the information provided by the competent authorities.
Article 63
Sanctions for infringements
This Article shall apply to the following provisions of this Regulation:
provision of services set out in Sections A, B and C of the Annex in infringement of Articles 16, 25 and 54;
obtaining the authorisations required under Articles 16 and 54 by making false statements or by any other unlawful means as provided for in point (b) of Article 20(1) and point (b) of Article 57(1);
failure of CSDs to hold the required capital, thus infringing Article 47(1);
failure of CSDs to comply with the organisational requirements, thus infringing Articles 26 to 30;
failure of CSDs to comply with the conduct of business rules, thus infringing Articles 32 to 35;
failure of CSDs to comply with the requirements for CSD services, thus infringing Articles 37 to 41;
failure of CSDs to comply with the prudential requirements, thus infringing Articles 43 to 47;
failure of CSDs to comply with the requirements for CSD links, thus infringing Article 48;
abusive refusals by CSDs to grant different types of access, thus infringing Articles 49 to 53;
failure of designated credit institutions to comply with the specific prudential requirements related to credit risks, thus infringing Article 59(3);
failure of designated credit institutions to comply with specific prudential requirements related to liquidity risks, thus infringing Article 59(4).
Without prejudice to the supervisory powers of competent authorities, at least in the event of an infringement referred to in this Article, the competent authorities shall, in conformity with national law, have the power to impose at least the following administrative sanctions and other measures:
a public statement which indicates the person responsible for the infringement and the nature of the infringement in accordance with Article 62;
an order requiring the person responsible for the infringement to cease the conduct and to desist from a repetition of that conduct;
withdrawal of the authorisations granted under Article 16 or 54, in accordance with Article 20 or 57;
a temporary or, for repeated serious infringements, a permanent ban against any member of the institution’s management body or any other natural person, who is held responsible, from exercising management functions in the institution;
maximum administrative pecuniary sanctions of at least twice the amounts of the profit gained as a result of an infringement where those amounts can be determined;
in respect of a natural person, maximum administrative pecuniary sanctions of at least EUR 5 million or in the Member States whose currency is not the euro, the corresponding value in the national currency on the date of adoption of this Regulation;
in the case of a legal person, maximum administrative pecuniary sanctions of at least EUR 20 million or up to 10 % of the total annual turnover of the legal person according to the last available accounts approved by the management body; where the legal person is a parent undertaking or a subsidiary of the parent undertaking which has to prepare consolidated financial accounts according to Directive 2013/34/EU, the relevant total annual turnover shall be the total annual turnover or the corresponding type of income according to the relevant Accounting Directives according to the last available consolidated accounts approved by the management body of the ultimate parent undertaking.
Article 64
Effective application of sanctions
Member States shall ensure that, when determining the type and level of administrative sanctions or other measures, the competent authorities take into account all relevant circumstances, including, where appropriate:
the gravity and the duration of the infringement;
the degree of responsibility of the person responsible for the infringement;
the financial strength of the person responsible for the infringement, for example as indicated by the total turnover of the responsible legal person or the annual income of the responsible natural person;
the importance of the profits gained, losses avoided by the person responsible for the infringement or the losses for third parties derived from the infringement, insofar as they can be determined;
the level of cooperation of the person responsible for the infringement with the competent authority, without prejudice to the need to ensure disgorgement of profits gained or losses avoided by that person;
previous infringements by the person responsible for the infringement.
Article 65
Reporting of infringements
The mechanisms referred to in paragraph 1 shall include at least:
specific procedures for the receipt and investigation of reports on potential or actual infringements and their follow-up, including the establishment of secure communication channels for such reports;
appropriate protection for employees of institutions who report potential or actual infringements committed within the institution against retaliation, discrimination or other types of unfair treatment at a minimum;
protection of personal data concerning both the person who reports the potential or actual infringements and the natural person who is allegedly responsible for an infringement in compliance with the principles laid down in Directive 95/46/EC;
protection of the identity of both the person who reports the infringements and the natural person who is allegedly responsible for an infringement, at all stages of the procedures unless such disclosure is required by national law in the context of further investigation or subsequent administrative or judicial proceedings.
Such a channel may also be provided through arrangements provided for by social partners. The same protection as is referred to in points (b), (c) and (d) of paragraph 2 shall apply.
Article 66
Right of appeal
Member States shall ensure that decisions and measures taken in pursuance of this Regulation are properly reasoned and subject to a right of appeal before a tribunal. The right of appeal before a tribunal shall apply where no decision is taken, within six months of its submission, in respect of an application for authorisation which contains all the information required under the provisions in force.
TITLE VI
DELEGATION OF POWER, IMPLEMENTING POWERS, TRANSITIONAL, AMENDING AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 67
Exercise of the delegation
Article 68
Committee procedure
Article 69
Transitional provisions
Article 70
Amendments to Directive 98/26/EC
Directive 98/26/EC is amended as follows:
the third indent of the first subparagraph of point (a) of Article 2 is replaced by the following:
designated, without prejudice to other more stringent conditions of general application laid down by national law, as a system and notified to the European Securities and Markets Authority by the Member State whose law is applicable, after that Member State is satisfied as to the adequacy of the rules of the system.’;
in Article 11, the following paragraph is added:
Article 71
Amendments to Directive 2014/65/EU
Directive 2014/65/EU is amended as follows:
in Article 2(1), point (o) is replaced by the following:
CSDs except as provided for in Article 73 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( *1 ).
in Article 4(1), the following point is added:
‘central securities depository’ or ‘CSD’ means a central securities depository as defined in point (1) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014.’;
in Section B of Annex I, point (1) is replaced by the following:
‘(1) Safekeeping and administration of financial instruments for the account of clients, including custodianship and related services such as cash/collateral management and excluding providing and maintaining securities accounts at the top tier level (‘central maintenance service’) referred to in point (2) of Section A of the Annex to the Regulation (EU) No 909/2014.’.
Article 72
Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 236/2012
Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 is deleted.
Article 73
Application of Directive 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 600/2014
CSDs authorised in accordance with Article 16 of this Regulation shall not require authorisation under Directive 2014/65/EU in order to provide the services explicitly listed in Sections A and B of the Annex to this Regulation.
Where a CSD authorised in accordance with Article 16 of this Regulation provides one or more investment services or carries out one or more investment activities in addition to providing the services explicitly listed in Sections A and B of the Annex to this Regulation, Directive 2014/65/EU with the exception of Articles 5 to 8, Article 9(1) to (2) and (4) to (6) and Articles 10 to 13, and Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 shall apply.
Article 74
Reports
ESMA shall, in cooperation with EBA and the competent authorities and the relevant authorities, submit annual reports to the Commission providing assessments of trends, potential risks and vulnerabilities, and, where necessary, recommendations of preventative or remedial action in the markets for services covered by this Regulation. Those reports shall include at least an assessment of the following:
settlement efficiency for domestic and cross-border operations for each Member State based on the number and volume of settlement fails, amount of penalties referred to in Article 7(2), number and volumes of buy-in transactions referred to in Article 7(3) and (4) and any other relevant criteria;
the appropriateness of penalties for settlement fails, in particular the need for additional flexibility in relation to penalties for settlement fails in relation to illiquid financial instruments referred to in Article 7(4);
measuring settlement which does not take place in the securities settlement systems operated by CSDs based on the number and volume of transactions based on the information received under Article 9 and any other relevant criteria;
the cross-border provision of services covered by this Regulation based on the number and types of CSD links, number of foreign participants in the securities settlement systems operated by CSDs, number and volume of transactions involving such participants, number of foreign issuers recording their securities in a CSD in accordance with Article 49 and any other relevant criteria;
the handling of access requests in Articles 49, 52 and 53 to identify the reasons for rejection of access requests by CSDs, CCPs and trading venues any trends in such rejections and ways in which the risks identified could be mitigated in future so as to allow for access to be granted, and any other substantive barriers to competition in post-trade financial services;
the handling of applications submitted in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 23(3) to (7) and Article 25(4) to (10);
where applicable, the findings of the peer review process for cross-border supervision in Article 24(6) and whether the frequency of such reviews could be reduced in the future, including an indication of whether such findings indicate the need for more formal colleges of supervisors;
the application of civil liability rules of Member States relating to the losses attributable to CSDs;
the procedures and conditions under which CSDs have been authorised to designate credit institutions or themselves to provide banking-type ancillary services in accordance with Articles 54 and 55, including an assessment of the effects that such provision may have on financial stability and competition for settlement and banking-types ancillary services in the Union;
the application of the rules referred to in Article 38 on protection of securities of participants and those of their clients, in particular those in Article 38(5);
the application of the sanctions and in particular the need to further harmonise the administrative sanctions for the infringement of the requirements laid down in this Regulation.
Article 75
Review
By 18 September 2019, the Commission shall review and prepare a general report on this Regulation. That report shall, in particular, assess the matters referred to in points (a) to (k) of Article 74(1), whether there are other substantive barriers to competition in relation to the services subject to this Regulation which are insufficiently addressed and the potential need for further measures to limit the impact on taxpayers of the failure of CSDs. The Commission shall submit the report to the European Parliament and to the Council, together with any appropriate proposals.
Article 76
Entry into force and application
By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, in the case of a trading venue that has access to a CSD referred to in Article 30(5), Article 5(2) shall apply at least six months before such a CSD outsources its activities to the relevant public entity, and in any event from 1 January 2016.
An MTF that complies with the criteria laid down in Article 33(3) of Directive 2014/65/EU shall be subject to the second subparagraph of Article 7(3) of this Regulation:
until the final determination of its application for registration under Article 33 of Directive 2014/65/EU; or
where an MTF has not applied for registration under Article 33 of Directive 2014/65/EU, until ►M1 13 June 2018 ◄ .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX
LIST OF SERVICES
SECTION A
Core services of central securities depositories
1. Initial recording of securities in a book-entry system (‘notary service’);
2. Providing and maintaining securities accounts at the top tier level (‘central maintenance service’);
3. Operating a securities settlement system (‘settlement service’).
SECTION B
Non-banking-type ancillary services of CSDs that do not entail credit or liquidity risks
Services provided by CSDs that contribute to enhancing the safety, efficiency and transparency of the securities markets, which may include but are not restricted to:
Services related to the settlement service, such as:
Organising a securities lending mechanism, as agent among participants of a securities settlement system;
Providing collateral management services, as agent for participants in a securities settlement system;
Settlement matching, instruction routing, trade confirmation, trade verification.
Services related to the notary and central maintenance services, such as:
Services related to shareholders’ registers;
Supporting the processing of corporate actions, including tax, general meetings and information services;
New issue services, including allocation and management of ISIN codes and similar codes;
Instruction routing and processing, fee collection and processing and related reporting.
Establishing CSD links, providing, maintaining or operating securities accounts in relation to the settlement service, collateral management, other ancillary services.
Any other services, such as:
Providing general collateral management services as agent;
Providing regulatory reporting;
Providing information, data and statistics to market/census bureaus or other governmental or inter-governmental entities;
Providing IT services.
SECTION C
Banking-type ancillary services
Banking-type services directly related to core or ancillary services listed in Sections A and B, such as:
Providing cash accounts to, and accepting deposits from, participants in a securities settlement system and holders of securities accounts, within the meaning of point 1 of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU;
Providing cash credit for reimbursement no later than the following business day, cash lending to pre-finance corporate actions and lending securities to holders of securities accounts, within the meaning of point 2 of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU;
Payment services involving processing of cash and foreign exchange transactions, within the meaning of point 4 of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU;
Guarantees and commitments related to securities lending and borrowing, within the meaning of point 6 of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU;
Treasury activities involving foreign exchange and transferable securities related to managing participants’ long balances, within the meaning of points 7(b) and (e) of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU.
( 1 ) Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading and amending Directive 2001/34/EC (OJ L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 64).
( 2 ) Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on European Union macro-prudential oversight of the financial system and establishing a European Systemic Risk Board (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 1).
( 3 ) Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing (OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 15).
( 4 ) Commission Directive 2006/70/EC of 1 August 2006 laying down implementing measures for Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition of politically exposed person and the technical criteria for simplified customer due diligence procedures and for exemption on grounds of a financial activity conducted on an occasional or very limited basis (OJ L 214, 4.8.2006, p. 29).
( 5 ) Commission Decision 2001/528/EC of 6 June 2001 establishing the European Securities Committee (OJ L 191, 13.7.2001, p. 45).
( *1 ) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 1).’;