Article 12 1

(a)

the conclusion of a written outsourcing agreement between the credit servicer and the credit service provider under which the credit service provider is required to comply with the applicable legal provisions, including national provisions transposing this Directive, and the relevant Union or national law applicable to a creditor’s rights under a credit agreement, or to the credit agreement itself;

(b)

the outsourcing to a credit service provider of all credit servicing activities at the same time is forbidden;

(c)

the contractual relationship between the credit servicer and the credit purchaser and the obligations of the credit servicer towards the credit purchaser or towards borrowers is not altered by the outsourcing agreement with the credit service provider;

(d)

the compliance of a credit servicer with the requirements of its authorisation as set out in Article 5(1) is not affected by the outsourcing of some of its credit servicing activities;

(e)

the outsourcing to the credit service provider does not prevent the supervision by competent authorities of a credit servicer in accordance with Articles 14 and 21;

(f)

the credit servicer has direct access to all relevant information concerning the credit servicing activities outsourced to the credit service provider;

(g)

after the outsourcing agreement is terminated, the credit servicer has the expertise and resources to be able to provide the outsourced credit servicing activities.