1.An application pursuant to Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 shall contain, as appropriate, information that includes the following:
items listed in Annex I, when the applicant is a legal person applying for authorisation;
items listed in Annex II, when the applicant is a legal person applying for registration;
items listed in Annex I, when the applicant is a natural person applying for authorisation, with the exception of the information listed at points (c), (f), (h) and (i) of paragraph 1 of Annex I;
items listed in Annex II, when the applicant is a natural person applying for registration, with the exception of the information listed at points (c), (f), (h) and (i) of paragraph 1 of Annex II.
2.The application may contain information at the level of a family of benchmarks only where none of the benchmarks within the family is included in the list of critical benchmarks established in accordance with Article 20(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011.
3.Where the applicant has omitted to provide any of the required information the application shall include an explanation as to why that information has not been provided.
4.The applicant shall not be required to provide the information listed under points (f) to (j) of paragraph 1 of Annex I or Annex II, as applicable, to the extent that the applicant is already supervised in the Member State by the same competent authority for other activities than the provision of benchmarks.
5.Personal data relating to the good repute of an applicant benchmark administrator’s management body and of employees responsible for the oversight function, or of members performing the oversight function where a separate committee carries out the oversight function shall be kept by applicant benchmark administrators and competent authorities as long as necessary to assess the initial application and the ongoing supervision, as applicable, and no longer than five years after that person has ceased to perform its function.