Art. 1 Definitions | ITS on register of information |

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

‘direct ICT third-party service provider means an ICT third-party service provider or ICT intra-group service provider that signed a contractual arrangement with: a financial entity to provide its ICT services directly to that financial entity; a financial or a non-financial entity to provide its services to other financial entities within the same group;’ means an ICT third-party service provider means an undertaking providing ICT services; or ICT intra-group service provider means 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; that signed a contractual arrangement with:
1. a financial entity means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; to provide its ICT services means digital and data services provided through ICT systems to one or more internal or external users on an ongoing basis, including hardware as a service and hardware services which includes the provision of technical support via software or firmware updates by the hardware provider, excluding traditional analogue telephone services; directly to that financial entity means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;;
2. a financial or a non-financial entity means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; to provide its services to other financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) within the same group means a group as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive 2013/34/EU;;
‘ICT service supply chain means a sequence of contractual arrangements connected with the ICT service being provided by the direct ICT third-party service provider to the financial entity, starting with the direct ICT third-party service provider which has one or multiple other ICT third-party service providers as counterparties (subcontractors);’ means a sequence of contractual arrangements connected with the ICT service means an ICT service as defined in Article 2, point (13), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; being provided by the direct ICT third-party service provider means an ICT third-party service provider or ICT intra-group service provider that signed a contractual arrangement with: a financial entity to provide its ICT services directly to that financial entity; a financial or a non-financial entity to provide its services to other financial entities within the same group; to the financial entity means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;, starting with the direct ICT third-party service provider means an ICT third-party service provider or ICT intra-group service provider that signed a contractual arrangement with: a financial entity to provide its ICT services directly to that financial entity; a financial or a non-financial entity to provide its services to other financial entities within the same group; which has one or multiple other ICT third-party service providers means an undertaking providing ICT services; as counterparties (subcontractors);
‘rank means the position of an ICT third-party service provider in the ICT service supply chain.’ means the position of an ICT third-party service provider means an undertaking providing ICT services; in the ICT service supply chain means a sequence of contractual arrangements connected with the ICT service being provided by the direct ICT third-party service provider to the financial entity, starting with the direct ICT third-party service provider which has one or multiple other ICT third-party service providers as counterparties (subcontractors);.