Information for Issuers of Securities on ESAP Metadata Reporting

24 June 2026
Ref.: 2407026

Circular no.: 22/2026
To: Issuers of securities and Nasdaq Iceland

Subject: Information for issuers of securities

The Financial Supervisory Authority refers to Circular no. 18/2026 dated 22 May this year, in which the implementation of the European Single Access Point (ESAP) system is announced. As part of the preparations for the implementation, the Financial Supervisory Authority wishes to draw the particular attention of issuers of securities on a regulated market to the fact that certain information will be transmitted to ESAP through a central storage system, the OAM (Officially Appointed Mechanism). This concerns information that originates from issuers and is transmitted through the news agencies on which the issuer in question relies.

To ensure a smooth implementation and prevent delays in the publication of statutory announcements, issuers must provide the news agencies with the necessary information.

What this means for issuers:

• Issuers must provide the news agencies with certain metadata no later than 10 July 2026.

• The news agencies are responsible for the technical processing of the metadata required for ESAP, and this is part of their publication and reporting obligation to the OAM.

• The responsibility for providing adequate and correct metadata nevertheless remains with the issuer.

• It is necessary for the issuer to provide information on the metadata in time to prevent difficulties with publishing statutory announcements in its news agency on 10 July 2026 or after that date.

The metadata on which the issuer must provide information include, among other things:

• Legal entity identifier.

• The size of the company, cf. Article 3 of Directive 2013/34/EU, which was implemented by Act no. 3/2006 on annual accounts.

• The NACE industry classification in which the company operates, cf. Regulation (EU) no. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities of the European Union.

Issuers are advised to contact the news agency that provides them with services in respect of the OAM if they have questions in connection with the transmission of data to ESAP. Questions may also be sent to the Central Bank at the email address sedlabanki@sedlabanki.is.

Yours faithfully,
CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND

Aðalsteinn Eymundsson
Björgvin Sighvatsson
Director
Specialist
Conduct Supervision
Conduct Supervision