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CHAPTER IIIU.K.CONTENTS OF THE REGISTRIES

SECTION 1U.K.Reporting and Confidentiality

Article 9U.K.Reporting

1.Each registry administrator shall make available the information listed in Annex XVI at the frequencies and to the recipients set out in Annex XVI in a transparent and organised manner via his registry web site. Registry administrators shall not release additional information held in the registry.

2.The Central Administrator shall make available the information listed in Annex XVI at the frequencies and to the recipients set out in Annex XVI in a transparent and organised manner via the Community independent transaction log web site. The Central Administrator shall not release additional information held in the Community independent transaction log.

3.Each web site shall allow the recipients of the reports listed in Annex XVI to query those reports using search facilities.

4.Each registry administrator is responsible for the accuracy of the information that originates from his registry and is made available via the Community independent transaction log website.

5.Neither the Community independent transaction log nor registries shall require account holders to submit price information concerning allowances or Kyoto units.

Article 10U.K.Confidentiality

[F11. Information, including the holdings of all accounts, all transactions made, the unique unit identification code of the allowances and the unique numeric value of the unit serial number of the Kyoto units held or affected by the transaction, held in the registries and the Community independent transaction log shall be considered confidential except as otherwise required by Union law, or by provisions of national law that pursue a legitimate objective compatible with this Regulation and are proportionate.

2. The following entities may obtain data stored in the registries and the CITL:

(a) the law enforcement and tax authorities of a Member State;

(b) the European Anti-fraud Office of the European Commission;

(c) the European Court of Auditors;

(d) Eurojust;

(e) the competent authorities referred to in Article 11 of Directive 2003/6/EC and in Article 37(1) of Directive 2005/60/EC;

(f) the competent national supervisory authorities;

(g) registry administrators of Member States and the competent authorities referred to in Article 18 of Directive 2003/87/EC.]

[F22a. Transaction data may be provided to the entities listed under paragraph 2. upon their request to the Central Administrator or to a registry administrator if such requests are justified and necessary for the purposes of investigation, detection and prosecution of fraud, tax administration or enforcement, money laundering, terrorism financing or serious crime.

2b. An entity receiving data in accordance with paragraph 2a shall ensure that the data received is only used for the purposes stated in the request in accordance with paragraph 2a and is not made available deliberately or accidentally to persons not involved in the intended purpose of the data use. This provision shall not preclude these entities to make the data available to other entities listed in paragraph 2, if this is necessary for the purposes stated in the request made in accordance with paragraph 2a.

2c. Upon their request, the Central administrator may provide access to anonymised transaction data to the entities listed in paragraph 2. for the purpose of looking for suspicious transaction patterns. Entities with such access may notify suspicious transaction patterns to other entities listed in paragraph 2.

2d. Registry administrators shall make available through secure means to all other registry administrators the names and identities of persons whom they refused to open an account for, or whom refused to nominate as an authorised representative or additional authorised representative.

2e. Registry administrators may decide to notify to national law enforcement authorities all transactions that involve a number of units above the amount determined by the registry administrator and to notify any account that is involved in a number of transactions within a 24-hour period that is above an amount determined by the registry administrator.]

[F32f. Europol shall obtain permanent read-only access to data stored in the Union Registry and the CITL for the purpose of the performance of its tasks in accordance with Council Decision 2009/371/JHA. Europol shall keep the Commission informed of the use it makes of the data.]

[F43. Each competent authority and registry administrator shall only perform processes concerning allowances, verified emissions, automatic national allocation plan table changes, accounts or Kyoto units where necessary to carry out their functions as competent authority or registry administrator.]

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