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LEI of sovereign issuers

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AI-generated Summary

To report the issuer of EEA sovereign bonds in FIRDS, firms should use the LEI of the relevant sovereign entity as registered with GLEIF; ESMA lists the LEI to use for each country.

Details

Reference	ESMA_QA_740
Issuer	ESMA
Published	31 Mar 2023
Answered	31 Mar 2023
Submitted	31 Mar 2023
ESMA topics	Instrument Reference data
Earlier Q&A document	ESMA 70-1861941480-56 MiFIR data reporting Q&A, Q&A 2.8

Provisions it relates to

Article 27 MiFIR · Obligation to supply financial instrument reference data
MiFIR
Inferred · 85%
MiFIR (whole act)
Explicit reference

Documents it refers to

RTSIn forceExplicit reference
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/585 of 14 July 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the data standards and formats for financial instrument reference data and technical measures in relation to arrangements to be made by the European Securities and Markets Authority and competent authorities
European Commission · 31 Mar 2017 · EUR-Lex
AI summaryRTS 23 on financial instrument reference data: sets the content, standards and format of the data that trading venues and systematic internalisers must send to competent authorities under Article 27 MiFIR, submission deadlines, ISIN and LEI identification, and the arrangements for ESMA and competent authorities to receive, check, exchange and publish the data.