Introductory text

THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first and fourth indents of Article 127(2) thereof,

Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular the first and fourth indents of Article 3.1, and Article 22 thereof,

Whereas:

Guideline ECB/2012/27^f1 establishes a Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system (TARGET2).

TARGET2 functions on the basis of a single technical platform called the Single Shared Platform, operated by the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Banque de France and the Banca d'Italia. It is legally structured as a multiplicity of real-time gross settlement systems, each of which is a TARGET2 component operated by a Eurosystem central bank (CB). Guideline ECB/2012/27 harmonises the rules for the TARGET2 components to the greatest extent possible.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted Decision ECB/2010/9^f2.

TARGET2 transaction-level data are necessary in order to perform analyses pertaining to macroprudential oversight, financial stability, financial integration, market operations, monetary policy functions and the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The data are also necessary to share the aggregated results of these analyses. The scope of Decision ECB/2010/9 therefore needs to be extended to allow access to the data for these purposes.

The Market Infrastructure Board (MIB) is responsible for operational activities in the field of Eurosystem market infrastructures. The MIB is also in charge of new market infrastructure-related initiatives and projects, including both TARGET2 and TARGET2-Securities functional and operational management, as mandated by the Governing Council. The Market Infrastructure and Payments Committee (MIPC) is responsible for coordinating the oversight of payment systems including coordination of the oversight of TARGET2. Concerning TARGET2-Securities (T2S) and TARGET2, the MIPC also contributes to tasks assigned to Level 1 of the governance in compliance with Guideline ECB/2012/27. The MIB and the MIPC take over the tasks conferred on the Payments and Settlement Systems Committee under Decision ECB/2010/9,

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