Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574Show full title

Article 15 Issuing and registration of economic operator identifier codes

1. Upon receipt of a request pursuant to Article 14, the ID issuer shall generate an economic operator identifier code, which consists of the following data elements, to be placed in the following order:

(a) in the first position, the alphanumeric characters that constitute the ID issuer identification code assigned under Article 3(4); and

(b) in the second position, an alphanumeric sequence which is unique within the code pool of the ID issuer.

2. Within two working days, the ID issuer shall transmit the code to the requesting operator.

3. All the information submitted to the ID issuer in accordance with Article 14(2), and the corresponding identifier codes, shall form part of a registry to be established, managed and kept up to date by the competent ID issuer.

4. In duly justified cases, Member States may, in accordance with their national laws, require the ID issuer to deactivate an economic operator identifier code. In such cases the Member State shall inform the economic operator or the operator of a first retail outlet of the deactivation, together with the grounds for such deactivation. The deactivation of an economic operator identifier code shall lead to the automatic deactivation of related facility identifier codes and machine identifier codes.

5. Economic operators and operators of first retail outlets shall exchange information on their respective economic operator identifier codes in order to allow economic operators to record and transmit the transactional information, as provided under Article 33.