Recital 3

(3)The public key infrastructure for the European System of Central Banks (hereinafter the ‘ESCB-PKI’) was established in Decision ECB/2013/1 ² . Pursuant to Article 3(1) of Decision ECB/2013/1, ESCB and Eurosystem electronic applications, systems, platforms and services with medium or above medium criticality should only be accessed and used if a user has been authenticated by means of an electronic certificate issued and managed by a certification authority accepted by the ESCB in accordance with the ESCB/SSM certificate acceptance framework, or by the ESCB-PKI certification authority or by certification authorities accepted by the ESCB for TARGET2 and TARGET2 Securities for those two applications.