1. NCAs shall submit data regarding the fee factors to the ECB at the latest by close of business on the 10th working day following the remittance dates referred to in Article 10(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41). Thereafter, the ECB shall verify the data received within five working days of receipt. If so requested by the ECB, NCAs shall explain or clarify the data. The ECB will finalise the data on the 15th working day following the relevant remittance date.
2. Upon the ECB finalising the data in accordance with paragraph 1, it shall grant the fee debtors access to the finalised data. The fee debtors shall be given five working days in which to comment on the fee factors data in the event that they consider that data to be incorrect. Thereafter, the fee factors will be applied for the calculation of the annual supervisory fees.