Source: OJ L, 2025/532, 2.7.2025

Current language: FR

Article 6 Résiliation du contrat entre l’entité financière et le prestataire tiers de services TIC


Summary What does Article 6 of the RTS on subcontracting ICT services say?

This article directly builds on Articles 4 and 5, which set out the contractual requirements and change notification process for subcontracting arrangements.

Article 6 provides the enforcement mechanism for those requirements: the right for financial entities to terminate their contractual arrangement with an ICT third-party service provider where that provider has acted outside the agreed boundaries.

Essentially, it gives financial entities the contractual exit rights they need when a provider ignores objections, bypasses the notice period, or subcontracts services without authorisation.

Important points:

  • Include termination rights in your contractual arrangements with ICT third-party service providers to cover the scenarios set out in this article.
  • The three grounds for termination all relate to provider misconduct: ignoring objections to material changes, implementing changes before the notice period expires, or subcontracting services not explicitly permitted under the contract.
  • All three termination triggers concern subcontracting that supports critical or important functions, meaning this protection is specifically focused on the highest-risk arrangements.

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L’entité financière a le droit de prévoir, dans l’accord contractuel avec le prestataire tiers de services TIC, la résiliation de cet accord dans chacun des cas suivants:

  1. l’entité financière s’est opposée aux changements significatifs apportés aux accords de sous-traitance de services TIC qui soutiennent des fonctions critiques ou importantes et a demandé la modification de ces accords, mais le prestataire tiers de services TIC les a néanmoins mis en œuvre;

  2. le prestataire tiers de services TIC a mis en œuvre des changements significatifs des accords de sous-traitance de services TIC qui soutiennent des fonctions critiques ou importantes ou des parties significatives de celles-ci avant la fin de la période de préavis sans l’approbation de l’entité financière;

  3. le prestataire tiers de services TIC a sous-traité un service TIC qui soutient des fonctions critiques ou importantes ou des parties significatives de celles-ci dont la sous-traitance n’est pas explicitement autorisée par le contrat entre l’entité financière et le prestataire tiers de services TIC.

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