Should cash penalties be passed on throughout the settlement chain?

Does the new requirement under Article 29(1a) of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (CSDR), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2023/2845 (CSDR Refit), apply to all issuers to whom a CSD provides services?

Does the requirement also apply to issuers of securities in paper form, if the CSD provides ancillary services to those issuers?

Does the obligation for issuers to obtain and transmit to the CSD a valid legal entity identifier (LEI) apply only to new issuers to whom the CSD provides services, i.e. after the date of entry into force of the requirement?

Should changes in the beneficial ownership on a client account (irrespective of how this is done from a technical perspective) be reported under Article 9 of CSDR?

(a) When should CSDs start offering a partial settlement functionality as per Article 10 of the RTS on Settlement Discipline?

(b) How should field 19 of table 1 of Annex II to the RTS on Settlement discipline be filled in if a CSD has no intention to use the derogation provided for in Article 12 of the RTS on Settlement Discipline?

(c) Should a CSD set up its partial settlement functionality as a proper functionality or could it be an outcome-based feature?

By when should CSDs publish the information set out in Annex III of the RTS on settlement discipline, as referred to in Article 15 of the same RTS?