DORA Register of Information — BaFin filing guide (2026)
Germany is the EU's largest DORA-regulated market by firm count, and BaFin cross-references submissions across the entities it supervises. This guide covers the BaFin deadline, the format, and the checks your register has to pass.
Filing deadline — BaFin (Germany)
31 March 2026
The headline ESA deadline. BaFin reconciles submissions across all supervised entities, so consistency matters.
Format required
EBA XBRL-CSV is required.
Reference date
31 December 2025.
What BaFin checks
- LEI checksums on every provider against GLEIF
- Cross-table referential integrity between ESA templates
- Exit-strategy and audit-rights clauses on critical providers
- Consistency of provider data across supervised entities
Common errors that get flagged
- Inconsistent provider details across group entities
- Invalid LEIs
- Missing exit strategies and broken fourth-party references
Who's in scope
- Banks and investment firms
- Payment institutions and insurers
- Crypto-asset service providers (CASPs)
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DORA filing guides by regulator
- DORA Register of Information — complete guide
- CySEC (Cyprus)
- DNB (Netherlands)
- MFSA (Malta)
- AFM (Netherlands)
- CNB (Czech Republic)
- CSSF (Luxembourg)
- AMF (France)
This guide is general information, not legal advice, and deadlines and formats can change — always confirm the current requirement directly with the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) before you file.