1. Without prejudice to Article 25a, the FCA shall ensure that this Regulation is applied.

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4. The FCA may adopt technical standards to specify:

(a) the information to be provided by a credit rating agency in its application for registration as set out in Annex II;

(b) information that the credit rating agency must provide for the application for certification and for the assessment of its systemic importance to the financial stability or integrity of financial markets referred to in Article 5;

(c) the presentation of the information, including structure, format, method and period of reporting, that credit rating agencies shall disclose in accordance with Article 11(2) and point 1 of Part II of Section E of Annex I;

(d) the assessment of compliance of credit rating methodologies with the requirements set out in Article 8(3);