Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1645 is amended as follows:
in Article 1, the following paragraph 3 is added:
‘3. Personal data relating to the good repute of an applicant benchmark administrator’s management body and employees responsible for the oversight function, or of members performing the oversight function where a separate committee carries out the oversight function, shall be kept by applicant benchmark administrators and ESMA for as long as necessary to assess the initial application and the ongoing supervision, as applicable and no longer than five years after that person has ceased to perform its function.’;
Article 2 is amended as follows:
paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. The application for recognition shall be submitted in a language customary in the sphere of international finance or in one of the official languages of the Member State where the legal representative is established.’;
in paragraph 2, the first sentence is replaced by the following:
‘2. The application for recognition shall be submitted by electronic means.’;
the following Article 2a is inserted:
‘Article 2a
Information to be provided for specific types of benchmarks
1. An applicant providing only interest rate benchmarks shall:
submit the information listed in the Annex to this Regulation;
specify how the specific requirements laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 are implemented where, pursuant to Article 18 of that Regulation, those specific requirements apply.
2. An applicant providing only commodity benchmarks shall:
submit the information listed in the Annex to this Regulation;
specify how the specific requirements set out in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 are implemented where, pursuant to Article 19 of that Regulation, those specific requirements apply.’;
the Annex is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Regulation.