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Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (Text with EEA relevance)

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TITLE VIIU.K.REQUIREMENTS FOR TRADE REPOSITORIES

Article 78U.K.General requirements

1.A trade repository shall have robust governance arrangements, which include a clear organisational structure with well defined, transparent and consistent lines of responsibility and adequate internal control mechanisms, including sound administrative and accounting procedures, which prevent any disclosure of confidential information.

2.A trade repository shall maintain and operate effective written organisational and administrative arrangements to identify and manage any potential conflicts of interest concerning its managers, employees, or any person directly or indirectly linked to them by close links.

3.A trade repository shall establish adequate policies and procedures sufficient to ensure its compliance, including of its managers and employees, with all the provisions of this Regulation.

4.A trade repository shall maintain and operate an adequate organisational structure to ensure continuity and orderly functioning of the trade repository in the performance of its services and activities. It shall employ appropriate and proportionate systems, resources and procedures.

5.Where a trade repository offers ancillary services such as trade confirmation, trade matching, credit event servicing, portfolio reconciliation or portfolio compression services, the trade repository shall maintain those ancillary services operationally separate from the trade repository’s function of centrally collecting and maintaining records of derivatives.

6.The senior management and members of the board of a trade repository shall be of sufficiently good repute and experience so as to ensure the sound and prudent management of the trade repository.

7.A trade repository shall have objective, non-discriminatory and publicly disclosed requirements for access by undertakings subject to the reporting obligation under Article 9. A trade repository shall grant service providers non-discriminatory access to information maintained by the trade repository, on condition that the relevant counterparties have provided their consent. Criteria that restrict access shall only be permitted to the extent that their objective is to control the risk to the data maintained by a trade repository.

8.A trade repository shall publicly disclose the prices and fees associated with services provided under this Regulation. It shall disclose the prices and fees of each service provided separately, including discounts and rebates and the conditions to benefit from those reductions. It shall allow reporting entities to access specific services separately. The prices and fees charged by a trade repository shall be cost-related.

[F19.A trade repository must establish the following procedures and policies—

(a)procedures for the effective reconciliation of data between trade repositories;

(b)procedures to verify the completeness and correctness of the data reported;

(c)policies for the orderly transfer of data to other trade repositories where requested by the counterparties or CCPs referred to in Article 9 or where otherwise necessary.

10.The FCA may make rules applying to trade repositories relating to—

(a)procedures described in paragraph 9(a) and (b),

(b)procedures to be applied to verify compliance by counterparties and CCPs with the reporting obligation under Article 9, and

(c)policies described in paragraph 9(c).]

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Arts. 78-80 modified (30.1.2024 for specified purposes, 1.11.2024 in so far as not already in force) by The Securitisation Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/102), regs. 2(1)(e)(2), 14(4) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2024/705, regs. 1(2), 2(2))

Article 79U.K.Operational reliability

1.A trade repository shall identify sources of operational risk and minimise them through the development of appropriate systems, controls and procedures. Such systems shall be reliable and secure and have adequate capacity to handle the information received.

2.A trade repository shall establish, implement and maintain an adequate business continuity policy and disaster recovery plan aiming at ensuring the maintenance of its functions, the timely recovery of operations and the fulfilment of the trade repository’s obligations. Such a plan shall at least provide for the establishment of backup facilities.

3.A trade repository from which registration has been withdrawn shall ensure orderly substitution including the transfer of data to other trade repositories and the redirection of reporting flows to other trade repositories.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Arts. 78-80 modified (30.1.2024 for specified purposes, 1.11.2024 in so far as not already in force) by The Securitisation Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/102), regs. 2(1)(e)(2), 14(4) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2024/705, regs. 1(2), 2(2))

Article 80U.K.Safeguarding and recording

1.A trade repository shall ensure the confidentiality, integrity and protection of the information received under Article 9.

2.A trade repository may only use the data it receives under this Regulation for commercial purposes if the relevant counterparties have provided their consent.

3.A trade repository shall promptly record the information received under Article 9 and shall maintain it for at least 10 years following the termination of the relevant contracts. It shall employ timely and efficient record keeping procedures to document changes to recorded information.

4.A trade repository shall calculate the positions by class of derivatives and by reporting entity based on the details of the derivative contracts reported in accordance with Article 9.

5.A trade repository shall allow the parties to a contract to access and correct the information on that contract in a timely manner.

[F25a.Upon request, a trade repository shall provide counterparties that are not required to report the details of their OTC derivative contracts pursuant to Article 9(1a) to (1d) and counterparties and CCPs which have delegated their reporting obligation pursuant to Article 9(1f) with access to the information reported on their behalf.]

6.A trade repository shall take all reasonable steps to prevent any misuse of the information maintained in its systems.

A natural person who has a close link with a trade repository or a legal person that has a parent undertaking or a subsidiary relationship with the trade repository shall not use confidential information recorded in a trade repository for commercial purposes.

Article 81U.K.Transparency and data availability

1.A trade repository shall regularly, and in an easily accessible way, publish aggregate positions by class of derivatives on the contracts reported to it.

2.A trade repository shall collect and maintain data and shall ensure that the entities referred to in paragraph 3 have direct and immediate access to the details of derivatives contracts they need to fulfil their respective responsibilities and mandates.

[F33 . A trade repository shall make the necessary information available to the following entities to enable them to fulfil their respective responsibilities and mandates:

[F4(a)the FCA;

(b)the Bank of England;

(c)the Pensions Regulator;]

[F5(d)the relevant authorities of a third country where the third country is recognised by regulations made by the Treasury as one in which the arrangements for trade repositories are equivalent to those in the United Kingdom (in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 75);

(e)the relevant authorities of a third country that has entered into a cooperation arrangement with the FCA as referred to in Article 76;]

[F6(f)the relevant authorities of a third country in respect of which the Treasury has made regulations under Article 76a;]

[F7(g)the body known as the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers;

(h)the PRA.]

[F8A trade repository shall transmit data to competent authorities in accordance with the requirements under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 (1) .]]

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[F105 .[F11The FCA may make] technical standards specifying the following:

( a ) the information to be published or made available in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3;

( b ) the frequency of publication of the information referred to in paragraph 1;

( c ) the operational standards required to aggregate and compare data across trade repositories and for the entities referred to in paragraph 3 to access that information;

( d ) the terms and conditions, the arrangements and the required documentation under which trade repositories grant access to the entities referred to in paragraph 3.

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Textual Amendments

F13Article 82U.K.Exercise of the delegation

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