The structure of the templates and the requirements of the data points are designed considering data management and reporting perspectives to ensure consistency and harmonisation by design and avoid burdensome reprocessing of data for reporting purposes. When maintaining and updating the register of information, financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) should adhere to data quality principles and ensuring therefore full comparability of the information reported in the register of information with the one provided in other regulatory or statistical reporting.