DORA

Preamble (Recitals 1 – 106)

Recitals

Chapter I (Articles 1 – 4)

General provisions

Article 1

Subject matter

Article 2

Scope

Article 3

Definitions

Article 4

Proportionality principle

Chapter II (Articles 5 – 16)

ICT risk management

Section I

Article 5

Governance and organisation

Section II

Article 6

ICT risk management framework

Article 7

ICT systems, protocols and tools

Article 8

Identification

Article 9

Protection and prevention

Article 10

Detection

Article 11

Response and recovery

Article 12

Backup policies and procedures, restoration and recovery procedures and methods

Article 13

Learning and evolving

Article 14

Communication

Article 15

Further harmonisation of ICT risk management tools, methods, processes and policies

Article 16

Simplified ICT risk management framework

Chapter III (Articles 17 – 23)

ICT-related incident management, classification and reporting

Article 17

ICT-related incident management process

Article 18

Classification of ICT-related incidents and cyber threats

Article 19

Reporting of major ICT-related incidents and voluntary notification of significant cyber threats

Article 20

Harmonisation of reporting content and templates

Article 21

Centralisation of reporting of major ICT-related incidents

Article 22

Supervisory feedback

Article 23

Operational or security payment-related incidents concerning credit institutions, payment institutions, account information service providers, and electronic money institutions

Chapter IV (Articles 24 – 27)

Digital operational resilience testing

Article 24

General requirements for the performance of digital operational resilience testing

Article 25

Testing of ICT tools and systems

Article 26

Advanced testing of ICT tools, systems and processes based on TLPT

Article 27

Requirements for testers for the carrying out of TLPT

Chapter V (Articles 28 – 44)

Managing of ICT third-party risk

Section I

Key principles for a sound management of ICT third-party risk

Article 28

General principles

Article 29

Preliminary assessment of ICT concentration risk at entity level

Article 30

Key contractual provisions

Section II

Oversight framework of critical ICT third-party service providers

Article 31

Designation of critical ICT third-party service providers

Article 32

Structure of the Oversight Framework

Article 33

Tasks of the Lead Overseer

Article 34

Operational coordination between Lead Overseers

Article 35

Powers of the Lead Overseer

Article 36

Exercise of the powers of the Lead Overseer outside the Union

Article 37

Request for information

Article 38

General investigations

Article 39

Inspections

Article 40

Ongoing oversight

Article 41

Harmonisation of conditions enabling the conduct of the oversight activities

Article 42

Follow-up by competent authorities

Article 43

Oversight fees

Article 44

International cooperation

Chapter VI (Article 45)

Information-sharing arrangements

Article 45

Information-sharing arrangements on cyber threat information and intelligence

Chapter VII (Articles 46 – 56)

Competent authorities

Article 46

Competent authorities

Article 47

Cooperation with structures and authorities established by Directive (EU) 2022/2555

Article 48

Cooperation between authorities

Article 49

Financial cross-sector exercises, communication and cooperation

Article 50

Administrative penalties and remedial measures

Article 51

Exercise of the power to impose administrative penalties and remedial measures

Article 52

Criminal penalties

Article 53

Notification duties

Article 54

Publication of administrative penalties

Article 55

Professional secrecy

Article 56

Data Protection

Chapter VIII (Article 57)

Delegated acts

Article 57

Exercise of the delegation

Chapter IX (Articles 58 – 64)

Transitional and final provisions

Section I

Article 58

Review clause

Section II

Amendments

Article 59

Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009

Article 60

Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 648/2012

Article 61

Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 909/2014

Article 62

Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 600/2014

Article 63

Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2016/1011

Article 64

Entry into force and application

Recital 39 Exemptions for specific financial entities

Some financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) benefit from exemptions or are subject to a very light regulatory framework under the relevant sector-specific Union law. Such financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) include managers of alternative investment fundsmeans a manager of alternative investment funds as defined in Article 4(1), point (b), of Directive 2011/61/EU; referred to in Article 3(2) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (16)Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011 on Alternative Investment Fund Managers and amending Directives 2003/41/EC and 2009/65/EC and Regulations (EC) No 1060/2009 and (EU) No 1095/2010 (OJ L 174, 1.7.2011, p. 1)., insurance and reinsurance undertakingsmeans a reinsurance undertaking as defined in Article 13, point (4), of Directive 2009/138/EC; referred to in Article 4 of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (17)Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II) (OJ L 335, 17.12.2009, p. 1)., and institutions for occupational retirement provisionmeans an institution for occupational retirement provision as defined in Article 6, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2016/2341; which operate pension schemes which together do not have more than 15 members in total. In light of those exemptions it would not be proportionate to include such financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) in the scope of this Regulation. In addition, this Regulation acknowledges the specificities of the insurance intermediation market structure, with the result that insurance intermediariesmeans an insurance intermediary as defined in Article 2(1), point (3), of Directive (EU) 2016/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council (34);, reinsurance intermediariesmeans a reinsurance intermediary as defined in Article 2(1), point (5), of Directive (EU) 2016/97; and ancillary insurance intermediariesmeans an ancillary insurance intermediary as defined in Article 2(1), point (4), of Directive (EU) 2016/97; qualifying as microenterprisesmeans a financial entity, other than a trading venue, a central counterparty, a trade repository or a central securities depository, which employs fewer than 10 persons and has an annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total that does not exceed EUR 2 million; or as small or medium-sized enterprisesmeans a financial entity that is not a small enterprise and employs fewer than 250 persons and has an annual turnover that does not exceed EUR 50 million and/or an annual balance sheet that does not exceed EUR 43 million; should not be subject to this Regulation.
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