(2)Fees associated with applications for recognition (‘recognition fees’) should be charged to third-country CCPs to cover ESMA’s costs for processing applications for recognition, including costs for verifying that applications are complete, requesting additional information, drafting of decisions and costs relating to the assessment of the systemic importance of third-country CCPs (‘tiering’). For CCPs that are systemically important or likely to become systemically important for the financial stability of the Union or of one or more of its Member States and that are recognised by ESMA in accordance with Article 25(2b) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (‘Tier 2 CCPs’), additional costs are incurred by ESMA. These additional costs are incurred by ESMA when assessing compliance with the recognition conditions set out in Article 25(2b) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 and whether, by complying with the applicable third-country legal framework, a CCP may be deemed to satisfy compliance with the requirements set out in Article 16 and Titles IV and V of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (‘comparable compliance’). The costs associated with applications made by Tier 2 CCPs will therefore be higher than those associated with applications made by third-country CCPs that are not deemed to be systemically important or likely to become systemically important for the financial stability of the Union or of one or more of its Member States (‘Tier 1 CCPs’).