Title IV – Final provisions and implementation

These Guidelines apply from 17 . 02 . 2025, with the exception of:

• a. paragraphs 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, which will apply from [15 May 2025] for assessments of natural persons, and from [30 April 2026] for assessments of legal persons;
• b. paragraph 7.2 (a-e), which will apply from [30 January 2026].

Competent authorities should include available historical data on natural persons for the last five years, calculated from the date of application of these Guidelines, in the ESAs Information System by 15 May 2025.

When single data points for the natural person, e.g. date or place of birth, specified under paragraph 7.1 are not available, the requesting and requested authorities should ensure by other means that the information that should be provided is relevant to the assessment of the person of interest.

Competent authorities should include available historical data on legal persons for the last two years calculated from [30 January 2026] in the ESAs Information System by 30 April 2026. In the absence of an LEI for legal persons, other registration numbers (e.g. from a central register, commercial register, companies register or similar public register) and in addition the country of incorporation should be inputted into the ESAs Information System.