Amendment of Decision ECB/2013/1
Article 5
Decision ECB/2013/1 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, the following definitions are added: ‘19. “competent authority” means either a national competent authority or the ECB; 20. “national competent authority” (NCA) means a national competent authority as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 ( *1 ) and, for the purposes of this Decision, also includes, in respect of the supervisory tasks assigned to them, national central banks that have been assigned certain supervisory tasks under national law and are not designated as NCAs; 21. “cooperating authority” means a public authority, other than a central bank within the ESCB or a competent authority, with which the ESCB or the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) cooperates in carrying out the tasks of the ESCB or of the ECB under Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013; 22. “participating competent authority” means a competent authority that uses the ESCB services for the purpose of cooperating with the ESCB and with other competent authorities, in order to carry out its tasks within the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), established pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013. ( *1 ) Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions ( OJ L 287, 29.10.2013, p. 63 ).’;" (2) the following Article 9a is inserted: ‘Article 9a Use of the ESCB-PKI services by cooperating authorities 1. Subject to the approval of the Governing Council, a cooperating authority may use the ESCB-PKI services in order to access and use ESCB and Eurosystem electronic applications, systems, platforms, databases and services for the purpose of cooperating with the ESCB or with the SSM and may act for that purpose as a registration authority for its internal users. 2. Cooperating authorities that decide to use the ESCB-PKI services shall submit a declaration to the Governing Council by which they confirm their use of the services and accept compliance with the related obligations. 3. Cooperating authorities that decide to use the ESCB-PKI services shall comply with the applicable legal framework, including the Level 2 – Level 3 Agreement.’; (3) Article 14 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 14 Financial arrangements Participating central banks and participating competent authorities shall bear the costs of developing and operating the ESCB-PKI services according to a defined reimbursement framework, which is based on a cost allocation key, as further specified in the ESCB-PKI financial envelopes following the applicable reimbursement rules. Cooperating authorities shall contribute to the costs in accordance with a specific reimbursement framework.’.