Article 15 — Extension of activities and services — compare

1.A CCP wishing that intends to extend its business to additional services or activities, including to non-financial instruments suitable to be centrally cleared at an authorised CCP, not covered by the initialexisting authorisation shall submit a requestan application for an extension to the CCP’s competent authority. The offering of clearing services for which the CCP has not already been authorised shall be considered of that authorisation to additional clearing services or activities in one or more classes of derivatives, securities, other financial instruments or non-financial instruments, to be the CCP’s competent authority, unless such an extension of that activities or services is exempted from authorisation under Article 15a.

3.In order to ensure consistent application of this Article, ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the ESCB, shall develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying to specify the conditions under which additional services or activities to which a CCP wishes to extend its business are not covered by the initial authorisation and therefore require an extension of authorisation in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Articlelists of required documents that shall accompany an application for an extension of authorisation pursuant to paragraph 1 and to specify the information that such documents shall contain. The lists of required documents and information shall be relevant and also specifyingproportionate to the procedure for consultingnature of the college established extension of authorisation procedures referred in accordance paragraph 1, with Article 18 on whether or not those conditions are meta view to demonstrating that the CCP meets all relevant requirements of this Regulation.

4.ESMA shall develop draft implementing technical standards to specify the electronic format of the application for an extension of the authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article to be submitted via the central database.