1. Registered credit rating agencies shall provide to ESMA their pricing policies, fee structure or fee schedules and pricing criteria in relation to those rated entities or financial instruments on which they are issuing credit ratings and, where applicable, pricing policies regarding ancillary services.

2. Registered credit rating agencies shall ensure that for each type of credit rating offered the pricing policies contain or are accompanied by the following items:

(a) the names of the persons responsible for the approval and maintenance of the pricing policies, fee schedules and/or fee programmes, including those responsible for setting fees, the internal identifier, the function and internal department to which the persons belong;

(b) any internal guidelines for application of the pricing criteria in the pricing policies, fee schedules and/or fee programmes relating to the setting of individual fees;

(c) a detailed description of the fee range or fee schedule and criteria applicable to the different types of fees, including those provided for in the fee schedules;

(d) a detailed description of any fee programme, including a relationship programme, frequency of use programme, loyalty programme or other programme, and including the criteria of application and fee range, from which individual credit ratings or set of ratings may benefit in fee terms;