Registration entities will have until February 24, 2021 to forward to the Central Bank a joint proposal for a complementary plan of homologation integration tests, in accordance with BCB Normative Instruction No. 78 of February 17, 2021
The complementary plan shall provide for test cycles and scenarios, guidelines on masses of data, as well as a list of possible adjustments and improvements in the interoperability environment. The tests shall be performed by the registering entities until March 24, 2021.
The financial institutions, accrediting and sub-accrediting institutions that have successfully concluded, until February 1st , 2020, the tests pursuant to BCB Normative Instruction no. 41/2020, that have presented a readiness statement without indicating any reservation and that decide to perform the tests of the complementary cycle with the same registrar, will be exempt from redoing the steps set forth in the homologation integration test plan, defined in the scope of said Normative Instruction.
Furthermore, the financial institutions, the accrediting entities and the registering entities must send until May 10, 2021 a declaration of readiness to perform the discount of receivables operations, signed by the designated responsible officer.
In the case of accrediting institutions that have participated in the homologation testing cycle established in BCB Normative Instruction No. 41/2020, by means of registering entities whose systems have not been considered apt to perform the receivables registration activity by February 1, 2021, the declaration of readiness is conditioned to the successful completion, in at least one registering entity whose system has been considered apt by February 1, 2021, of all the stages foreseen in the two cycles of homologation integration tests.
In the case of financial institutions eligible for load testing in accordance with the criteria set out in the Supplemental Plan for Type-Approval Integration Testing, a specific statement concerning the successful completion of such tests by 24 May 2021 should be submitted.
The accrediting institutions participating in the compulsory integration homologation tests that successfully complete all the tests scheduled up to May 10, 2021 shall communicate, upon specific determination of the Central Bank, to the subaccrediting institutions for which they provide services and that do not successfully complete the scheduled tests, the temporary suspension of the provision of such services as from June 7, 2021.
The registration entities participating in the tests that declare, until May 10, 2021, aptitude to perform the registration of transactions, shall keep available the technological environment until May 28, 2021, so that the participants may perform any additional tests.
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