Public consultations
Ongoing consultations
- 6 June 2025
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          Public consultation on a possible extension of T2 operating hours Deadline: 18:00 CET on 30 September 2025 
Under review
There are currently no public consultations under review.
Completed consultations
- 14 July 2025
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          Public consultation on the recast of the Regulation on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems 
 Regulation (EU) 2025/1355 of the European Central Bank of 2 July 2025 on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems (ECB/2025/22) (recast)
 Response to the public consultation on a proposed recast of the ECB Regulation on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems (SIPS Regulation)
 Deadline: 18:00 CET on 29 November 2024
- 22 November 2021
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          Public consultation on the draft Eurosystem oversight framework for electronic payment instruments, schemes and arrangements 
 Press Release
 Summary of responses
 Deadline: 18:00 CET on 31 December 2020
- 23 November 2020
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          Public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on EURIBOR fallback trigger events 
 Press release
 Public consultation
 Summary of responses
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 15 January 2021
- 23 November 2020
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          Public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on €STR-based EURIBOR fallback rates 
 Press release
 Public consultation
 Summary of responses
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 15 January 2021
- 12 October 2020
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          Public consultation on a digital euro 
 Press release
 Hub: A digital euro
 Report on a digital euro
 Letter from Fabio Panetta to Irene Tinagli, MEP, on ECB public consultation on a digital euro
 List of questions
 Summary of responses
 Responses to the public consultation
 Deadline: 23:59 CET on 12 January 2021
- 27 November 2020
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          Public consultation on the revision of the ECB Regulation on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems and two implementing ECB Decisions 
 Comments
 Deadline: 18:00 CET on 8 January 2021
- 24 July 2020
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          Public Consultation package for the production of compounded term rates based on €STR 
 Press release
 Summary of responses
 Deadline: 18:00 CET on 11 September 2020
- 13 March 2020
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          Public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on Swaptions impacted by the CCP discount change from EONIA to the €STR 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 17 April 2020
- 28 May 2019
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          Market consultation on a potential Eurosystem initiative regarding a European mechanism for the issuance and initial distribution of debt securities in the European Union 
 Deadline: 9 July 2019
 Outcome
 Responses
- 15 May 2019
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          Public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on the EONIA to €STR legal action plan 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 12 June 2019
- 8 March 2019
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          ECB consults on the procedure and conditions for exercise by a competent authority of certain powers in relation to oversight of SIPS 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 12 April 2019
- 21 January 2019
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          ECB consults on the user detailed functional specifications for the future RTGS service in the context of the T2-T2S consolidation Cover Note - Call for Comments on User Detailed Functional Specifications v1.1 for T2 Service (CLM and RTGS)User Detailed Functional Specifications v1.1 - Central Liquidity Management (CLM)User Detailed Functional Specifications v1.1 – Real-time gross settlement (RTGS)Template for feedback - UDFS - CLMTemplate for feedback - UDFS - RTGS
 Deadline: 5 April 2019
 T2-T2S.Consolidation@ecb.europa.eu
- 20 December 2018
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          Second public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on determining an ESTER-based term structure methodology as a fallback in EURIBOR-linked contracts 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 1 February 2019
- 21 June 2018
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          First public consultation by the working group on euro risk-free rates on the assessment of candidate euro risk-free rates 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 13 July 2018
- 10 April 2018
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          Public consultation on cyber resilience oversight expectations 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 5 June 2018
- 15 March 2018
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          Second public consultation on developing a euro unsecured overnight interest rate 
 Deadline: 17:00 CET on 20 April 2018
- 28 November 2017
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          First public consultation on developing a euro unsecured overnight interest rate 
 Deadline: 12 January 2018
- 10 May 2017
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          ECB consults on the user requirements for the future RTGS service in the context of the T2-T2S consolidation: Executive summary to the market consultation on the future RTGS servicesT2-T2S Consolidation - User Requirements Document - Central Liquidity ManagementT2-T2S Consolidation - User Requirements Document - Future RTGST2-T2S Consolidation - User Requirements Document - Shared ServicesT2-T2S Consolidation – GlossaryTemplate for feedback - URD – CLMTemplate for feedback - URD – RTGSTemplate for feedback - URD – SHRDTemplate for feedback - URD – GlossaryDeadline: 30 June 2017 
 T2-T2S.Consolidation@ecb.europa.eu
 Outcome
- 23 January 2017
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          ECB consults on market interest in a TIPS service and its expected usage: Questionnaire on expected volumes in TARGET instant payment settlement (TIPS) serviceDeadline: 24 February 2017 
- 9 January 2017
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          Consultation on TARGET Instant Payments Settlement User RequirementsTemplate for commentsDeadline: 24 February 2017 ECB consults on user requirements document: 
 Outcome
- 20 December 2016
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          Draft Regulation of the European Central Bank amending Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systemsDraft Decision of the European Central Bank on the methodology for calculating sanctions for infringements of the oversight requirements for systemically important payment systemsTemplate for commentsDeadline: 20 February 2017 ECB consults on revision of the SIPS Regulation: 
 Outcome
- 15 February 2016
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          Consultation on RTGS services in relation to Eurosystem´s vision for the future of Europe’s financial market infrastructureDeadline: 4 April 2016 Summary of feedback received