8 Data access by authorities (paras. 418-426)
418. Article 81(5) EMIR has been amended by EMIR REFIT as follows:
“5. In order to ensure the consistent application of this Article, ESMA shall, after consulting the members of the ESCB, develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying the following:
(a) the information to be published or made available in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3;
(b) the frequency of publication of the information referred to in paragraph 1;
(c) the operational standards required to aggregate and compare data across trade repositories and for the entities referred to in paragraph 3 to access that information;
(d) the terms and conditions, the arrangements and the required documentation under which trade repositories grant access to the entities referred to in paragraph 3.