Art.29 Preliminary assessment of ICT concentration risk at entity level
When assessing ICT third-party arrangements supporting critical or important functions, financial entities shall assess ICT concentration risk, including the risks of contracting providers that are not easily substitutable or of multiple arrangements with the same or closely connected providers, and the implications of subcontracting.
Source: DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554), Art.29. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) in the compliance library.
Applies to the financial entities listed in Article 2. Many duties are lighter or absent for microenterprises and for the entities in Article 16(1); each statement says where. Article 19 carries the reporting clocks of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/301, Article 5.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- ICT concentration-risk assessment for critical/important-function arrangements · Vendor register / contract repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Concentration risk not assessed
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetArt.28 ICT third-party risk: general principles · Art.30 Key contractual provisions