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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)

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Article 36Security and interoperability of communications and data

1.All electronic communication provided for under this Regulation shall be carried out using secure means. Applicable security protocols and connectivity rules shall be based on non-proprietary open standards. They shall be established by:

(a)the ID issuer for communications between the ID issuer and the economic operators registering with the ID issuer or requesting unique identifiers;

(b)the providers of the primary repositories for communications between the primary repositories and manufactures or importers;

(c)the provider of the secondary repository for communications between the secondary repository and the router and:

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the ID issuers;

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the primary repositories; and

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economic operators using the router, i.e. economic operators other than manufacturers and importers.

2.Providers of primary and secondary repositories shall be responsible for the security and integrity of hosted data. Data portability shall be secured in accordance with the common data dictionary set out in Article 28.

3.For all transfers of data, the sending party is responsible for the completeness of transferred data. In order for the sending party to discharge this obligation, the receiving party shall acknowledge the receipt of transferred data including a checksum value of actual transmitted data or any alternative mechanism allowing for validating the integrity of transmission, in particular its completeness.

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