1. Applicants for registration as an external reviewer for European Green Bonds shall submit the information referred to in Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 in the format set out in the Annexes to this Regulation.
2. Applicants shall provide ESMA with the information referred to in Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 in a machine-readable format which:
allows the information to remain accessible for a period of time adequate for the purposes of the application;
allows for the unchanged reproduction of the information stored.
3. Applicants shall provide a unique reference number to each document that they submit to ESMA. Applicants shall ensure that the documents they submit clearly identifies to which specific requirement of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 it refers and in which document that information is provided. Applicants shall submit the table set out in Annex I to this Regulation as part of their application and shall clearly identify the document in which they have provided the information required.
4. Where a requirement of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 does not apply to the application for registration, applicants shall state that in the relevant table set out in the Annex to this Regulation and shall provide an explanation.
5. Applicants shall accompany their application for registration with a letter signed by a member of the applicants’ senior management, attesting that the submitted information is accurate and complete to the best of that member’s knowledge, as of the date of that submission.
6. Personal data relating to applicants for registration as an external reviewer shall be kept by external reviewers and ESMA for as long as it is necessary for the assessment of the initial registration and no longer than five years after that applicant has ceased to perform its function. Where ESMA has refused the registration of the applicant external reviewer or where the applicant withdraws its application, personal data relating to that applicant should be kept by ESMA no longer than five years after the refusal of the registration of the applicant or after the withdrawal of the application.