Recital 4 Assessment on national or EU level and at group or entity level

Financial entities may have the same ICT intra-group service providermeans an undertaking that is part of a financial group and that provides predominantly ICT services to financial entities within the same group or to financial entities belonging to the same institutional protection scheme, including to their parent undertakings, subsidiaries, branches or other entities that are under common ownership or control; or may belong to the same groupmeans a group as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive 2013/34/EU; and rely on the use of shared ICT systems. In that case, it is important that TLPT authoritiesmeans any of the following:the single public authority in the financial sector designated in accordance with Article 26(9) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;the authority in the financial sector to which the exercise of some or all of the tasks in relation to TLPT is delegated in accordance with Article 26(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;any of the competent authorities referred to in Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554; consider the structure and systemic character or importance for the financial sector of that financial entity at national or Union level in the assessment of whether a financial entity should be subject to TLPT and of whether the TLPT should be conducted at entity level or at groupmeans a group as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive 2013/34/EU; level (through a joint TLPTmeans a TLPT, other than a pooled TLPT as referred to in Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, involving several financial entities using the same ICT intra-group service provider, or belonging to the same group and sharing ICT systems.).