1. Prior to the launch of a supervisory stress test, the ECB shall decide the information that significant supervised entities participating in a given supervisory stress test must submit to the ECB, the form in which that information must be submitted and the reporting remittance dates by when that information must be submitted.
2. Prior to the launch of a supervisory stress test, the ECB shall notify any decision taken under paragraph 1 to the relevant significant supervised entities that are to participate in the relevant supervisory stress test.
3. The notification of any decision referred to in paragraph 2 shall be made via the IT platform ASTRA. The decision, as an ECB supervisory decision, shall be deemed to be notified to the relevant supervised entities on the date it is uploaded to the IT platform ASTRA. Upon upload of the decision to the IT platform ASTRA the addressee of the decision shall be sent an email to the email address as provided by it on registration with the IT platform ASTRA or as subsequently updated.