Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1212 of 25 July 2016 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to standard procedures and forms for submitting information in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)

1 For each Member State, competent authorities shall designate a single contact point for sending the information referred to in Articles 2 and 3 and for communications on any issue relating to the submission of such information.

2 Competent authorities shall notify the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) of the contact point referred to in paragraph 1.

3 ESMA shall designate a contact point for receiving the information referred to in Article 2 and for communications on any issue relating to the reception of the information referred to in Articles 2 and 3.

4 ESMA shall publish the contact point referred to in paragraph 3 on its website.

Competent authorities shall provide ESMA with the information referred to in Article 99e(1) of Directive 2009/65/EC by filling in the form set out in Annex I to this Regulation. That information shall refer to all the penalties and measures imposed during the previous calendar year. The form shall be completed electronically and sent to ESMA by e-mail using the contact point referred to in Article 1(3) no later than 31 March of each year.

1 Competent authorities shall report to ESMA the administrative penalties and measures referred to in Article 99e(2) of Directive 2009/65/EC using the existing interfaces provided by the information technology system, and the related database, set up by ESMA to manage the receipt, storage and publication of information on those administrative penalties and measures in accordance with Article 99e of Directive 2009/65/EC.

2 The administrative penalties and measures shall be submitted to ESMA in a report file in the format set out in Annex II.

1 Where a competent authority wishes to invalidate an existing report file it has previously submitted to ESMA in accordance with Article 3, it shall cancel the existing report and send a new report file.

2 Where a competent authority wishes to update an existing report file it has previously submitted to ESMA in accordance with Article 3, it shall resubmit the report file with the updated information.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.