The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published templates, technical documents and tools for the dry run exercise on the reporting of registers of information in the context of Digital Operation Resilience Act (DORA) announced in April 2024.

The materials published today include:

templates for the registers of information with example (in Excel);
draft technical package for reporting, including data point model (DPM),annotated table layout and validation rules;
optional tool (VBA macro) to assist with the conversion of Excel templates into .csv files and .zip files for their submission;
frequently asked questions regarding the exercise.
All these materials are available on the dry run exercise webpage.

Financial entities can use these materials and tools to prepare and report their registers of information of contractual arrangements on the use of ICT third-party service providers in the context of the dry run exercise, and to understand supervisory expectations for the reporting of such registers from 2025 onwards.