(1) Where a person administering a benchmark submits a notification, application or report required by the EU Benchmarks Regulation 2016 to the FCA, that notification, application or report must -

(a) be made in such manner as the FCA may direct; and

(b) contain or be accompanied by such other information as the FCA may reasonably require.

(2) At any time after receiving an application or notification and before determining it, the FCA may require the person administering a benchmark to provide it with such further information as it reasonably considers necessary to enable it to determine the application or consider the notification.

(3) The FCA may give different directions, and impose different requirements, in relation to different applications, notifications or reports or categories of application, notification or report.

(4) The FCA may require the person administering a benchmark to provide information under this regulation in such form, or to verify it in such a way, as the FCA may reasonably direct.