Recital 1

(1)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 650/2014 ² specifies the format, structure, contents list, and annual publication date of the information to be published by competent authorities pursuant to Article 143 of Directive 2013/36/EU. Article 5 of that Implementing Regulation requires competent authorities to update the information referred to in Article 143(1), points (a), (b) and (c), of that Directive regularly, and by 31 July of each year, unless there is no change in the information published.