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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 28Coordination tasks of the provider of the secondary repository

1.The provider operating the secondary repository shall communicate to providers operating primary repositories, ID issuers and economic operators, the list of specifications required for the data exchange with the secondary repository and the router. All specifications shall be based on non-proprietary open standards.

The list referred to in the first subparagraph shall be communicated no later than two months following the date when the provider operating the secondary repository was selected.

2.On the basis of the information listed in Annex II, the provider operating the secondary repository shall establish a common data dictionary. The common data dictionary shall refer to labels of data fields in the human readable format. The common data dictionary shall be communicated to the providers operating primary repositories no later than two months following the date when the provider operating the secondary repository was selected.

3.Whenever necessary to ensure the effective operation of the repositories system in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation, the provider operating the secondary repository shall update the list referred to in paragraph 1 and the common data dictionary referred to in paragraph 2. Any such update shall be communicated to the providers operating primary repositories at least two months prior to the date of implementing the update into the system.