Article 45 1

1.   A competent authority of a Member State that finds that acts infringing this Regulation are being, or have been, carried out by an ESG rating provider on the territory of its own or of another Member State shall inform ESMA thereof. Where a competent authority considers it appropriate for investigatory purposes, that competent authority may suggest to ESMA that it assess the need to use the powers under Article 32 in relation to the ESG rating provider involved in those acts.