Identification of economic operators
44.—(1) An economic operator (“E”), who receives a request in relation to a safety component for lifts from the market surveillance authority before the end of the relevant period, must, within such period as the authority may specify, identify to the authority—
(a)any other economic operator who has supplied E with the safety component for lifts; and
(b)any other economic operator to whom E has supplied the safety component for lifts.
(2) The relevant period is—
(a)for the information in paragraph (1)(a), a period of 10 years beginning on the day on which E was supplied with the safety component for lifts;
(b)for the information in paragraph (1)(b), a period of10 years beginning on the day on which E supplied the safety component for lifts.