1.   ESMA shall lodge the amounts of fines and periodic penalty payments to an interest-bearing account opened by ESMA until those fines and penalty payments become final. In the case of multiple fines and periodic penalty payments collected by ESMA in parallel, ESMA shall ensure that those fines and penalty payments are lodged to different accounts or subaccounts. Fines and periodic penalty payments paid shall not be entered into ESMA’s budget or recorded as budgetary amounts.

2.   Once ESMA has established that the fines or periodic penalty payments have become final following the exhaustion of all appeal rights, ESMA shall transfer those amounts and potential interest accruing to the Commission. These amounts shall then be entered in the general budget of the Union.

3.   ESMA shall report on a regular basis to the Commission on the amounts of fines and periodic penalty payments imposed and their status.