The ECB or the competent national central bank, as the case may be, shall, when giving notice of objections, fix a time limit within which the undertaking concerned may inform in writing the ECB or the competent national central bank, as the case may be, of its views on the objections raised, without prejudice to the possibility to develop these views at an oral hearing, if so requested in its written comments.
ECB oziroma pristojna nacionalna centralna banka pri obveščanju o obtožbah določi rok, v katerem zadevno podjetje lahko ECB oziroma pristojno državno nacionalno banko pisno obvesti o svojih stališčih glede podanih obtožb, ne da bi to vplivalo na razvoj teh stališč na ustnem zaslišanju, če se tako zahteva v pisnih pripombah.