in force 2024-05-20 MODIFIED+977 −146§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 32024R1183
applies from: unknown (the text changed beyond its dates, so no date that moved can be read as the application date)
dates added to the text: 2025-05-21
The notification requirement in paragraph 1 no longer refers to providers 'without qualified status' and now requires the conformity assessment report to confirm fulfilment of requirements laid down both in this Regulation and in Article 21 of Directive (EU) 2022/2555.
Paragraph 2 adds a new procedure requiring the supervisory body to ask competent authorities designated under Article 8(1) of that Directive to carry out supervisory actions and report within two months, with a duty on those authorities to explain delays, before restating the three-month qualified-status determination and delay-notification rules that appeared before.
Paragraph 4 now sets a deadline of 21 May 2025 for the Commission to establish, rather than merely define, the formats and procedures of notification and verification by implementing acts.
Cited: Art. 21, v2 · Art. 21, v1
text before / after
32014R0910 → 02014R0910-20240520
Article 21
Initiation of a qualified trust service
1. Where trust service providers, without qualified status, providers intend to start providing a qualified trust services, service, they shall submit to notify the supervisory body a notification of their intention together with a conformity assessment report issued by a conformity assessment body. body confirming the fulfilment of the requirements laid down in this Regulation and in Article 21 of Directive (EU) 2022/2555.
2. The supervisory body shall verify whether the trust service provider and the trust services provided by it comply with the requirements laid down in this Regulation, and Regulation and, in particular, with the requirements for qualified trust service providers and for the qualified trust services they provide.
In order to verify the compliance of the trust service provider with the requirements laid down in Article 21 of Directive (EU) 2022/2555, the supervisory body shall request the competent authorities designated or established pursuant to Article 8(1) of that Directive to carry out supervisory actions in that regard and to provide information about the outcome without undue delay and in any event within two months of receipt of that request. If the verification is not concluded within two months of the notification, those competent authorities shall inform the supervisory body specifying the reasons for the delay and the period within which the verification is to be concluded.
Where the supervisory body concludes that the trust service provider and the trust services provided by it comply with the requirements referred to laid down in the first subparagraph, this Regulation, the supervisory body shall grant qualified status to the trust service provider and the trust services it provides and inform the body referred to in Article 22(3) for the purposes of updating the trusted lists referred to in Article 22(1), not later than three months after notification in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article.
If Where the verification is not concluded within three months of notification, the supervisory body shall inform the trust service provider specifying the reasons for the delay and the period within which the verification is to be concluded.
3. Qualified trust service providers may begin to provide the qualified trust service after the qualified status has been indicated in the trusted lists referred to in Article 22(1).
4. The By 21 May 2025, the Commission may, shall, by means of implementing acts, define establish the formats and procedures of the notification and verification for the purpose purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2. 2 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 48(2).