Article 4
Data exchange formats and information associated with submissions
1.
Institutions shall report the information referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of this Regulation in the data exchange formats and representations specified by their competent authority and shall respect the data point definition of the data point model and the validation formulae laid down in Annex III.
2.
Information that is not required or not applicable shall not be included in the data submission.
3.
Numeric values shall be submitted as follows:
(a)
data points with the data type ‘Monetary’ shall be reported using a minimum precision equivalent to thousands of units;
(b)
data points with the data type ‘Percentage’ shall be expressed per unit with a minimum precision equivalent to four decimals;
(c)
data points with the data type ‘Integer’ shall be reported using no decimals and a precision equivalent to units.
4.
Institutions shall be identified solely by their Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Legal entities and counterparties other than institutions shall be identified by their LEI where available.
5.
The information reported by institutions shall be associated with the following:
(a)
reporting reference date and reference period;
(b)
reporting currency;
(c)
accounting standard;
(d)
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) of the reporting institution;
(e)
scope of consolidation.