Decision (EU) 2024/461 (ECB/2024/2) is amended as follows:
(1)
the title is replaced by the following:
‘Decision (EU) 2024/461 of the European Central Bank of 29 January 2024 on the reporting by national competent authorities to the European Central Bank of information on remuneration, gender pay gap, approved higher ratios, high earners and diversity practices at the level of the management body for the purposes of benchmarking (ECB/2024/2)’;
(2)
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 1
Subject matter and scope
This Decision lays down the requirements concerning the submission to the European Central Bank (ECB) of information reported to the national competent authorities (NCAs) by supervised entities for the purposes of benchmarking remuneration trends and practices, the gender pay gap, approved higher ratios, high earners and diversity practices at the level of the management body.’
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(3)
the following Article 4a is inserted:
‘Article 4a
Requirements for the submission of information on diversity practices
NCAs shall submit to the ECB every three years the information on diversity practices at the level of the management body, including diversity policies and the gender pay gap at the level of the management body, specified in Annexes I to XI of EBA Guidelines EBA/GL/2023/08 and reported on an individual basis by the supervised entities established in their respective participating Member State in accordance with the EBA Decision concerning supervisory reporting for diversity benchmarking to the EBA and amendment of the Annex to EUCLID Decision (EBA/DC/2020/335) (EBA/DC/516) ( *1 ) . If an NCA collects information on diversity practices from supervised entities that are not part of a sample of reporting entities in line with the criteria specified in EBA Decision EBA/DC/516, such information shall not be submitted to the ECB.
( *1 ) Available on the EBA website.’;"
(4)
in Article 5, the following paragraph 4 is added:
‘4. NCAs shall submit to the ECB the information referred to in Article 4a in accordance with the following:
(a)
for significant supervised entities, NCAs shall, upon receipt of the data in accordance with the 30 April remittance date and after performing the initial data checks referred to in Article 8, submit to the ECB that information without undue delay;
(b)
for less significant supervised entities, NCAs shall submit that information to the ECB at the latest by 12:00 Central European Time (CET) on 15 June.’
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