Where a request for information is made to a college by a competent authority of a Member State which is not a member of the college in accordance with Article 18(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the CCP’s competent authority, after having consulted the college, shall decide on the most appropriate way to provide and request information to and from the authorities that are not members of the college.

Each member of the college shall designate one participant to attend the meetings of the college and may designate one alternate, with the exception of the CCP’s competent authority which may require additional participants who shall have no voting rights.

Where the central bank of issue of one of the most relevant Union currencies corresponds to more than one central bank, the relevant central banks shall determine the single representative who will participate in the college.

Where an authority has the right to participate in the college under more than one of points (c) to (i) of Article 18(2) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, it may nominate additional participants who shall have no voting rights.

Where in accordance with this Article there is more than one participant from a college member, or there are more college members belonging to the same Member State than number of votes that can be exercised by those college members in accordance with Article 19(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, that college member or those college members shall inform the college which participants shall exercise voting rights.

By way of derogation from paragraphs 4 and 5, the ECB may nominate two participants with voting rights where it is a member of the college pursuant to both points (c) and (h) of Article 18(2) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012.