The EBA extends some consultation deadlines due to website maintenance
Why this matters
The item is an operational notice from the EBA about a website outage caused by a security patch, and it changes the deadlines for four consultations to 26 October 2026. It carries a near-term date, so urgency is high. It is not a consultation, rule, or enforcement action itself, and it does not establish substantive requirements. The sector is General because the text does not itself specify a sector, although the listed consultations touch banking and crypto topics. Technology & Cyber is the only topic the text directly supports.
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What the EBA said
On 21 October 2026, CERT-EU, the cybersecurity service for the EU institutions, bodies and agencies, alerted organisations to two critical security flaws in software used to run many websites, including that of the European Banking Authority (EBA). As a precaution, the EBA took its website offline on Wednesday 21…
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Context
European Banking Authority (EBA) — The EU's banking regulator, author of the single rulebook and binding technical standards. We track 28 updates from them.
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This update is classified under Technology & Cyber and General.