In accordance with Article 14(4)(b) of Directive 96/48/EC and Article 14(4)(b) of Directive 2001/16/EC, Member States shall designate a national body which shall be responsible for the keeping and updating of the National Vehicle Register. This body can be the National Safety Authority of the Member State concerned. Member States shall ensure that these bodies cooperate and share information in order to ensure that data changes are communicated in a timely manner.

Member States shall inform the Commission and the other Member States, within one year of the entry into force of this decision, of the body designated in accordance with paragraph 1.

Rolling stock placed in service for the first time in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania and intended to be used outside the European Union as part of common 1 520 mm rail system wagons fleet shall be registered in both the NVR and the Information Database of the Council of Railway Transport of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In this case, the 8-digit numbering system may be applied instead of the numbering system specified in the Annex.

Rolling stock placed in service for the first time in a third country and intended to be used inside the European Union as part of the common 1 520 mm rail system wagons fleet shall not be registered in the NVR. However, in conformity with article 14(4) of Directive 2001/16/EC, it must be possible to retrieve information listed in Article 14(5)(c), (d) and (e) from the Information Database of the CIS Council of Railway Transport.