(Article 24)

Third-country credit rating agency

1. The following information for each relevant third-country credit rating agency:

(a) its full name;

(b) its legal status, including an excerpt from the relevant commercial or court register, or other form of evidence of the place of incorporation and scope of business activity or other details of company registration;

(c) its country of establishment;

(d) the address of its registered office;

(e) evidence that the third-country credit rating agency is authorised or registered and is subject to supervision in the relevant jurisdiction;

(f) the class of credit rating which the credit rating agency expects to endorse; and

(g) the number of analysts it employs.

2. An organisational ownership chart of each credit rating agency, its subsidiaries, branches, parent undertaking and subsidiaries controlled by the parent undertaking involved in the process of issuing ratings for which endorsement is envisaged.

Assessment of the third-country regulatory regime