Article 6

Initial reporting

1.   Each registered credit rating agency shall provide data to ESMA by filling in Tables 1 to 4 of Annex I and separate files for pricing policies, fee schedules, fee programmes and procedures it is applying for each credit rating type in which it is active, in accordance with Article 5(1), within 30 days after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

2.   Initial reporting on fees referred to in Article 5(2) and (3) shall be submitted to ESMA nine months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation and shall include the data accumulated from the date of entry into force of this Regulation until 30 June 2015.

3.   The second report on fees referred to in Article 5(2) and (3) shall be submitted to ESMA by 31 March 2016 and shall include the data accumulated from 1 July 2015 until 31 December 2015.