1. A third party shall allocate a unique reference number to each document it submits to the competent authority as part of its application.
2. A third party shall include a substantiated explanation in its application for any requirement of this Regulation considered non-applicable.
3. The application referred to in Article 1 shall be accompanied by a letter signed by a member of the third party's management body confirming that:
the submitted information is accurate and complete to the best of his or her knowledge, as of the date of the submission of the application;
the applicant is neither a regulated entity as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/87/EC5, nor a credit rating agency as defined in point (b) of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009.6