12.12.2013

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 333/82

(1)

The Eurosystem has decided to promote the establishment of CoreNet as an alternative/contingency network service to be used by the Eurosystem central banks and connected national central banks to have access to the Payments Module of the single shared platform (SSP) in a contigency mode and as an alternative channel for accessing the customer-related services system (CRSS).

(2)

As a result, Guideline ECB/2012/27 of 5 December 2012 on a Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system (TARGET2) (1) needs to be amended to add provisions with regard to the use of CoreNet as an alternative/contingency network for TARGET2,

‘�5)

‘渘etwork service provider‘�means a provider of computerised network connections for the purpose of submitting payment messages in TARGET2. Computerised network connections are provided through SWIFT, and additionally for Eurosystem internal communication, through CoreNet;‘�

‘�52)

‘淐oreNet‘�means the internal Eurosystem network service provided by the ECB and used by the Eurosystem CBs as a contingency network to access the SSP in the event that SWIFT is unavailable and as an alternative network to SWIFT to access the CRSS;

(53)

‘淐ustomer-related services system (CRSS)‘�provides core and optional services to Eurosystem CBs, i.e. archiving, billing optional services, query and report optional services and customer relationship optional services.‘�