1. From 10 July 2026, when making public any information referred to in Article 6(1) of this Regulation, the natural or legal person shall submit that information at the same time to the collection body referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article for the purpose of making it accessible on the European single access point (ESAP) established under Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

That information shall comply with the following requirements:

(a) be submitted in a data extractable format as defined in Article 2, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 or, where required by Union law, in a machine-readable format, as defined in Article 2, point (4), of that Regulation;

(b) be accompanied by the following metadata:

(i) all the names of the natural or legal person to which the information relates; 

(ii) for legal persons, the legal entity identifier of the person, as specified pursuant to Article 7(4), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859; 

(iii) for legal persons, the size of the person by category, as specified pursuant to Article 7(4), point (d), of that Regulation; 

(iv) the type of information as classified pursuant to Article 7(4), point (c), of that Regulation; 

(v) an indication of whether the information contains personal data.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, point (b)(ii), legal persons shall obtain a legal entity identifier.

3. For the purpose of making the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article accessible on ESAP, the collection body as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 shall be the competent authority.

4. For the purpose of ensuring the efficient collection and management of information submitted in accordance with paragraph 1, ESMA shall develop draft implementing technical standards to specify:

(a) any other metadata to accompany the information;

(b) the structuring of data in the information; 

(c) for which information a machine-readable format is required and, in such cases, which machine-readable format is to be used.

For the purposes of point (c), ESMA shall assess the advantages and disadvantages of different machine-readable formats and conduct appropriate field tests. 

ESMA shall submit those draft implementing technical standards to the Commission.

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

5. Where necessary, ESMA shall adopt guidelines to ensure that the metadata submitted in accordance with paragraph 4, first subparagraph, point (a), are correct.