1.ESMA shall draw up guidelines, in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010, with a view to further facilitating public access to information to be disclosed under Directive 2003/6/EC, Directive 2003/71/EC and under this Directive.
The aim of those guidelines shall be the creation of:
(a)an electronic network to be set up at national level between national securities regulators, operators of regulated markets and national company registers covered by the First Council Directive 68/151/EEC of 9 March 1968 on coordination of safeguards which, for the protection of the interests of members and others, are required by Member States of companies within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 48 (19) of the Treaty, with a view to making such safeguards equivalent throughout the Community (20); and
(b)a single electronic network, or a platform of electronic networks across Member States.
2.The Commission shall review the results achieved under paragraph 1 by 31 December 2006 and may, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2), adopt implementing measures to facilitate compliance with Articles 19 and 21.
1.ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards setting technical requirements regarding access to regulated information at Union level in order to specify the following:
(a)the technical requirements regarding communication technologies used by the mechanisms referred to in Article 21(2);
(b)the technical requirements for the operation of the central access point for the search for regulated information at Union level;
(c)the technical requirements regarding the use of a unique identifier for each issuer by the mechanisms referred to in Article 21(2);
(d)the common format for the delivery of regulated information by the mechanisms referred to in Article 21(2);
(e)the common classification of regulated information by the mechanisms referred to in Article 21(2) and the common list of types of regulated information.
2.In developing the draft regulatory technical standards, ESMA shall take into account the technical requirements for the system of interconnection of business registers established by Directive 2012/17/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 23 ).
ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 27 November 2015.
Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.