
Article 1 
Regulation (EU) 2017/1538 shall apply to less significant supervised entities which are subject to national accounting frameworks based on Directive 86/635/EEC and established in Germany or France from 1 January 2019.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.Done at Frankfurt am Main, 25 August 2017.
For the Governing Council of the ECB
The President of the ECB
Mario DRAGHI