Article 84 Maintenance of central database by ESMA

1.   Subject to the professional secrecy requirements referred to in Article 73, resolution authorities and competent authorities shall inform ESMA of all administrative penalties imposed by them under Article 81 and of the status of any appeal against such penalties and the outcome thereof.

2.   ESMA shall maintain a central database of administrative penalties reported to it solely for the purpose of exchange of information between resolution authorities which shall be accessible to resolution authorities only and shall be updated on the basis of the information provided by resolution authorities.

3.   ESMA shall maintain a central database of administrative penalties reported to it solely for the purpose of exchange of information between competent authorities which shall be accessible to competent authorities only and shall be updated on the basis of the information provided by competent authorities.

4.   ESMA shall maintain a webpage on its existing website with links to each resolution authority’s publication of administrative penalties and each competent authority’s publication of administrative penalties under Article 83 and indicate the period for which each Member State publishes penalties.