Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1338 of 10 July 2025 laying down implementing technical standards for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the functionalities of the European single access point

The API shall: (a) support the distribution of the information in the format in which it is received; (b) support the functions of search and download; (c) allow users to have unrestricted access to all services that are free of charge; (d) incorporate any changes or updates requested by ESMA to ensure compliance with points (a), (b) and (c).

Where required by any of the acts referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 or by any delegated or implementing act based on those acts for the purpose of the ESAP, entities submitting information to collection bodies and the legal person to which the information relates shall be identified with a legal entity identifier that: (a) pertains to that person and, as the case may be, to that entity; (b) is compliant with the ISO 17442 standard; and (c) is included in the LEI database maintained by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.

Information submitted by the entities to collection bodies shall be classified according to the applicable types of information set out in Table 1 of the Annex.

Where metadata indicating the size category of an entity is required by any of the acts referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 or by any delegated or implementing act based on those acts for the purpose of the ESAP, the information shall be accompanied by either of the following: (a) metadata indicating one of the size categories set out in Table 2 of the Annex where information is submitted to collection bodies pursuant to one of the Union legislative acts included in that Table; (b) metadata indicating the size category ‘other size’ where information is submitted to collection bodies pursuant to Union legislative acts other than those included in Table 2 of the Annex.

Where metadata indicating the industry sector of the economic activities is required by any of the acts referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 or by any delegated or implementing act based on those acts for the purpose of the ESAP: (a) entities falling under one or more categories set out in Table 3 of the Annex shall be classified according to that table; (b) other entities shall be categorised on the basis of one or more of the main sections of Statistical Classification of economics activities in the European Community (NACE), as defined in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137.

The ESAs, through the Joint Committee, shall re-assess the technical standards laid down in this Regulation relating to the legal entity identifier, having regard to information submitted by entities to collection bodies. The ESAs shall submit a report to the Commission by 31 December 2026, accompanied, where appropriate, with proposed draft amendments to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 10 July 2026.