(33)Entities that are eligible to participate in a CSD under Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 correspond to the entities that are eligible to participate in a securities settlement system that is designated and notified in accordance with Directive 98/26/EC, because Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 requires securities settlement systems operated by CSDs to be designated and notified under Directive 98/26/EC. Accordingly, an operator of a securities settlement system based on distributed ledger technology that requests to be exempted from the participation requirements of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 would as a result not comply with the participation requirements of Directive 98/26/EC. Consequently, that securities settlement system cannot be designated and notified under that Directive and for that reason is not referred to as a ‘DLT securities settlement system’ in this Regulation but rather as a DLT SS. This Regulation should allow a CSD to operate a DLT SS that does not qualify as a securities settlement system designated under Directive 98/26/EC, and an exemption from the rules on settlement finality in Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 should be available, subject to certain compensatory measures, including specific compensatory measures to mitigate risks arising from insolvency, as insolvency protection measures under Directive 98/26/EC do not apply. However, such an exemption would not preclude a DLT SS that complies with all the requirements of Directive 98/26/EC from being designated and notified as a securities settlement system in accordance with that Directive.