Ranking of ICT third-party providers in the supply chain
Article 2
Financial entities shall assign a rank to each ICT third-party service provider. The rank shall be any natural number higher or equal to ‘1’ where the lower the natural number assigned to the rank, the closer the arrangement is to the financial entity.
The rank of the direct ICT third-party service provider in the ICT service supply chain shall always be ‘1’.
The rank of the subcontractor in the ICT service supply chain shall always be higher than ‘1’.
Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. · Read the official text ↗ · Data as of 2026-07-04
CitationArticle 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2956 (LawPlayer, data as of 2026-07-04)