Applications for recognition already submitted
Article 8
1. Where a third-country CCP has submitted an application for recognition before 22 September 2020, and ESMA has not yet adopted a decision to recognise or to refuse recognition of that CCP, the CCP shall pay the recognition fee provided for in Article 1(1) 22 October 2020. 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where ESMA has suspended the processing of a third-country CCP’s application for recognition before 22 September 2020, the CCP shall pay the recognition fee provided for in Article 1(1) within the payment date stated in the debit note sent by ESMA to the CCP, following the notification that the processing of its application is no longer suspended. The payment date shall provide the CCP with at least 30 calendar days to pay, from the day on which ESMA sent the debit note to the CCP.