COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the criteri...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 13.2.2025 C(2025) 885 final COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... of 13.2.2025 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the criteria used for identifying financial entities required to perform threat-led penetration testing, the requirements and standards governing the use of internal testers, the requirements in relation to the scope, testing methodology and approach for each phase of the testing, results, closure and remediation stages and the type of supervisory and other relevant cooperation needed for the implementation of TLPT and for the facilitation of mutual recognition (Text with EEA relevance) EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE DELEGATED ACT One of the objectives of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector is to ensure that financial entities regularly test their ICT systems to assess the effectiveness of their preventive and resilience measures and to identify and address potential ICT vulnerabilities, as well as to reduce single market fragmentation and enable cross-border acceptance of testing results. In that regard, Article 26(11) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 mandates the ESAs in agreement with the ECB, to develop joint draft regulatory technical standards in accordance with the TIBER-EU framework1 in order to specify further the...