Decision (EU) No 2017/2098 (ECB/2017/33) is amended as follows:
Article 2 is amended as follows:
the following paragraph 1a is inserted:
‘1a. Where two Eurosystem central banks are designated as competent authorities in relation to a given SIPS for the purposes of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28), and unless otherwise specifically provided for in the decision pursuant to Article 1(2) of that Regulation that identifies the relevant payment system as a SIPS, the following principles shall apply:
the powers and rights of a competent authority as set out in this Decision may be exercised either individually by either one of the two Eurosystem central banks designated as competent authorities or jointly by both;
any obligation of the competent authority to act in a prescribed manner or undertake a certain action in relation to a given procedure to impose a corrective measure as set out in this Decision shall be an obligation of the Eurosystem central bank that initiates the given procedure or, where a given procedure has been initiated by both Eurosystem central banks as designated competent authorities jointly, shall be an obligation of each of them;
the two Eurosystem central banks designated as competent authorities shall coordinate between themselves any interactions with, and any requests addressed to, the operator of the SIPS concerned;
any obligation of a SIPS operator to a competent authority pursuant to this Decision shall be an obligation to each of the two Eurosystem central banks designated as competent authorities, and a response to any request of either or both of them pursuant to this Decision shall be submitted to each of them.’;
in Article 6 the following paragraph 4 is added:
‘4. Where both the ECB and an NCB are designated as competent authorities pursuant to Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28), a decision to impose corrective measures shall be endorsed by the decision-making body of either the ECB or the NCB, as the case may be, who as a designated competent authority initiated the particular procedure to impose a corrective measure or, where the procedure was initiated by both the competent authorities jointly, by the decision-making bodies of each of them. The decision shall specify the time limit within which the SIPS operator concerned must implement the corrective measures.’.