# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1105 of 8 August 2018 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to procedures and forms for the provision of information by competent authorities to ESMA under Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), Article 5: Means of transmission

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

All requests for information, acknowledgements of receipt and replies to requests for information referred to in Articles 3 and 4 shall comply with the following rules:
(a) they shall be in writing;
(b) they shall be sent by post or fax, or by an electronic means that is capable of ensuring the completeness, integrity and confidentiality of the information throughout the transmission process;
(c) they shall be addressed:
(i) in the case of a request sent to a competent authority, to the contact person designated by the competent authority under Article 7;
(ii) in the case of an acknowledgement of receipt or a reply sent to ESMA, to the contact point specified by ESMA in its request for information.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/1105/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1105/article-5
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