Article 8

Reporting procedures

1.   Registered credit rating agencies shall submit data files in accordance with the technical instructions provided by ESMA and using ESMA’s reporting system.

2.   Registered credit rating agencies shall store the data files sent to and received by ESMA under Article 5 as well as the deviation records referred to in Article 3(3) in electronic form for at least five years. Those files shall be made available to ESMA on request.

3.   Where a registered credit rating agency identifies factual errors in data that have been reported, it shall inform ESMA without undue delay and correct the relevant data according to the technical instructions provided by ESMA.