*Answer provided by the European Commission in accordance with article 16b(5) of the ESMA Regulation*

The entities that have the reporting responsibilities under SFTR are the counterparties to the SFTs that they have concluded. Where a financial counterparty concludes an SFT with a non-financial counterparty which on its balance sheet dates does not exceed the limits of at least two of the three criteria laid down in Article 3(3) of Directive 2013/34/EU, the financial counterparty shall be responsible for reporting on behalf of both counterparties. 

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