1.Member States shall notify the Commission and the other Member States of the bodies which they have appointed to carry out the procedures referred to in Article 8 together with the specific tasks which these bodies have been appointed to carry out and the identification numbers assigned to them beforehand by the Commission.
The Commission shall, for information, publish in the Official Journal of the European Union, a list of those bodies, and the identification numbers it has assigned to them and shall ensure that the list is kept up to date.
2.Member States shall apply the criteria set out in Annex V for assessing the bodies to be notified.
Bodies which satisfy the assessment criteria laid down in the applicable harmonised standards shall be presumed to satisfy the criteria set out in that Annex.
3.A Member State which has notified a body must withdraw approval if it finds that the body no longer meets the criteria set out in Annex V. It shall immediately inform the Commission and the other Member States accordingly.