Participation of the competent authorities in relation to the ESCB-PKI
Article 3
1. A competent authority may decide to use ESCB-PKI services in order to access and use SSM electronic applications, systems, platforms and services and/or may act for that purpose as registration authority for its internal users as well as for third party users, under the same conditions as those applying to Eurosystem central banks. 2. The participating competent authority shall be subject to the obligations set out in Articles 6, 7 and 12 of Decision ECB/2013/1 and shall submit a declaration to the Governing Council by which it confirms its participation and compliance with the obligations laid down in the Level 2 — Level 3 Agreement referred to in Article 4(2) of that Decision.