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In forceMarkets and infrastructureLast checked 13 November 2026

Derivatives trade reporting under EMIR (EMIR Art 9)

A regulatory return listed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), European Union.

EMIR (Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, as revised by EMIR REFIT) requires every derivative contract to be reported so regulators can see risk building up in derivatives markets; ESMA writes the technical standards on how reporting, registration and data access work, and registers and supervises the trade repositories that actually collect the data. Source

The facts

Who files
Counterparties to derivative contracts (financial and non-financial) and entities responsible for reporting on their behalf, who report to Trade Repositories (TRs) registered with ESMA, not to ESMA itself. TRs centrally collect and maintain the records of all derivative contracts. Source
How often
Trade-by-trade, as derivative contracts are concluded, modified or terminated (not a periodic return). Source
Deadline
Not restated on the page read; governed by the EMIR REFIT reporting RTS and ITS, applicable since 29 April 2024. Source
Format
XML. ISO 20022 XML messages (incoming messages, outgoing messages, query, rejection and position messages), with Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) used to identify counterparties that are legal entities. Source
How it is filed
The format above is what the library records; what could not be verified is on the ESMA's page.
Status
In force
Group
Markets and infrastructure

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

Reporting is message-based (ISO 20022 XML schemas for incoming/outgoing messages, queries, rejections and positions), not a template with named schedules. Source

Validation rules

The ESMA publishes the checks it runs on this return. They could not be counted from the published material. They are written for people to read; software cannot run them as published. Source

Trade repositories validate data submissions and reconcile data between themselves against published validation rules and reconciliation tolerances; no single machine-readable rule count is stated on the page read.

The rules, on esma.europa.eu

Counts are in the ESMA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. Trade repositories publish some aggregate derivatives data and give authorities direct and immediate access to TR data under its own access regime; ESMA's own EMIR-reporting page does not itself publish filed data. Source

Official documents (2)

The ESMA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

Line4's own text, and the way Line4 has collected and arranged these records, are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Please credit: “Source: Line4 regulatory submissions library (CC BY 4.0), https://www.line4.ai”. The facts themselves belong to no one. The regulators' document titles, template names, quoted terms and documents belong to them and are not covered by this licence: see ESMA's reuse terms. This describes what regulators publish. It is not legal or regulatory advice: always rely on the regulator's own text. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any regulator.

Source: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), https://www.esma.europa.eu. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; ESMA does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.