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# Article 29 — Record keeping

*In force · Consolidated version of 17 January 2025 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 11 Oct 2026 ·* [*Official source*](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012R0648-20250117)

1. A CCP shall maintain, for a period of at least 10 years, all the records on the services and activity provided so as to enable the competent authority to monitor the CCP’s compliance with this Regulation.
2. A CCP shall maintain, for a period of at least 10 years following the termination of a contract, all information on all contracts it has processed. That information shall at least enable the identification of the original terms of a transaction before clearing by that CCP.
3. A CCP shall make the records and information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 and all information on the positions of cleared contracts, irrespective of the venue where the transactions were executed, available upon request to the competent authority, to ESMA and to the relevant members of the ESCB.
4. In order to ensure consistent application of this Article, ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying the details of the records and information to be retained as referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3.

   ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 30 September 2012.

   Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
5. In order to ensure uniform conditions of application of paragraphs 1 and 2, ESMA shall develop draft implementing technical standards specifying the format of the records and information to be retained.

   ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission by 30 September 2012.

   Power is conferred on the Commission to adopt the implementing technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.

### Related Level 2 and Level 3

#### Binding measures

* [153/2013 — RTS — Requirements for central counterparties \[in force\]](/emir/level-2/rts/153-2013-requirements-for-central-counterparties.md)
* [1249/2012 — ITS — Format of the records to be maintained by central counterparties \[in force\]](/emir/level-2/its/1249-2012-format-of-the-records-to-be-maintained-by-central-counterparties.md)

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