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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 29 April 2024 - onwards
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Article 5 Operational standards for access to data

1. A trade repository shall record information regarding the access to data given to the entities listed in Article 81(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012.

2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall include:

(a) the scope of data accessed;

(b) a reference to the legal provisions granting access to such data under Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 and this Regulation.

3. A trade repository shall establish and maintain the necessary technical arrangements to enable the entities listed in Article 81(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 to connect using a secure machine-to-machine interface in order to submit data requests and to receive data.

For the purposes of the first subparagraph, a trade repository shall use the SSH File Transfer Protocol. The trade repository shall use standardised XML messages developed in accordance with the ISO 20022 methodology to communicate through that interface. A trade repository may in addition, after agreement with the entity concerned, set up a connection using another mutually agreed protocol.

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