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# Article 2 — Ranking of ICT third-party providers in the supply chain

**Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2956 · binding · OJ L, 2024/2956, 2.12.2024 · dated 29 Nov 2024 [in force]**

*In force · Consolidated version of 2 December 2024 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 20 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02024R2956-20241202)*

Financial entities shall assign a rank to each ICT third-party service provider. The rank shall be any natural number higher or equal to ‘1’ where the lower the natural number assigned to the rank, the closer the arrangement is to the financial entity.

The rank of the direct ICT third-party service provider in the ICT service supply chain shall always be ‘1’.

The rank of the subcontractor in the ICT service supply chain shall always be higher than ‘1’.