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30 November 2011, 09:00 – 17:00
ECB Premises, Frankfurt am Main
Eurotower, Meeting room CIV
The Chairman will make some introductory remarks to the T2S Advisory Group (AG) and will invite the AG to agree on the agenda for the meeting.
Members of the AG will be invited to agree on the summary of the last meeting.
The T2S Team will report on the progress made on items discussed during the last AG meeting and on the updated T2S risk assessment.
The Chairman will report on (i) the recent decisions taken by Governing Council and the main topics discussed during the latest Programme Board meetings and (ii) the progress of negotiations between CSDs and the Eurosystem and between non-euro area central banks and the Eurosystem.
AG members are invited to report on issues that might be of interest to the AG.
The T2S Programme Office will inform the AG about the status of the Framework Agreement and of the Currency Participation Agreement as well as on the respective ways ahead.
The AG discussed the finalisation of the T2S Price List during the September 2011 and the T2S Programme Office will inform the AG on the decisions taken in that respect.
The chairman of the Harmonisation Steering Group (HSG), Mr Yvon Lucas, will report on the activities of the HSG. He will report on the outcome of the November meeting of the HSG and present to the AG a draft for the second harmonisation progress report. The HSG will also present to the AG, an initial draft for monitoring national markets' and CSDs' compliance with harmonisation standards.
The Chairman of the Task Force, Mehdi Manaa, will report on the activities of the Task Force.
The chairman of the SG on Message Standardisation, Mr Paolo Carabelli, will report on the activities of the Sub Group.
The chairman of the SG on Corporate Actions, Mr Joël Mérère, will report on the activities of the SG and present the outcome of the second gap analysis on the implementation of corporate actions standards.
AG members will be informed about the current status of the tender for Value Added Network service providers and the selection of the dedicated link solution.
During the September meeting, the AG endorsed in principle the change request to increase the number of test environments from two to four. 4CB will present the cost assessment for these test environments.
During its June 2011 meeting, the AG rejected the change request T2S_0292_SYS aiming at linking securities accounts to dedicated cash accounts in A2A mode. The National User Groups of Finland and Estonia have discussed the matter and provided a background document asking to reassess the change request.
AG members will be informed about the work that is currently ongoing at the level of the PMSG with respect to Data Migration Tools, with a particular focus on the functionality of the tool, the main operational principles and the main data types covered by the tool.
Members of the AG are invited to raise any other issues that need to be discussed during this meeting and to notify the Secretary in advance, where possible.
