No.

Pursuant to Article 1(2) of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1817 and Article 2(3) of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1816, for individual benchmarks, administrators may, rather than providing all the information required in the template laid down in the Annexes of the said regulations, replace that information by a hyperlink to a website that contains all that information. This hyperlink can be included in the benchmark statement or in the key elements of the methodology.

ESMA believes that these provisions aim at reducing the burden on administrators, who for example, provide a significant number of benchmarks or they have already in place a system that allows for the disclosure of the ESG factors.

Therefore, with regard to item 6 of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1817 and item 7 of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1816, administrators are not required to amend the benchmark statement or the key elements of the methodology of each individual benchmark to include the templates as provided in the Annexes of the delegated regulations but they can simply provide a link to where the information can be found on their website.