
Article 1 

1. The electronic database to be established and maintained pursuant to Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 (‘the electronic database’) shall, as respects communications under Articles 11 to 23, 26, 27 and 28 of that Regulation, be provided by means of the Internal Market Information System (‘IMI’) in accordance with Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2212
2. Registration in IMI of a Member State’s competent authorities, single liaison office and entities issuing external alerts pursuant to Article 27(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, and the updating of those registrations to reflect any relevant changes, shall constitute communication by that Member State to the Commission of the information referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 8(1) of that Regulation as respects those authorities, single liaison offices and entities.
3. The electronic database shall include the functionality necessary to allow competent authorities, single liaison offices and the Commission to obtain, for the purposes of Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, a digitally certified summary of the communications falling within paragraph 1 of this Article that concern them.
Article 2 
Each Member State shall assign either to its single liaison office or to one or more of its competent authorities the task of receiving incoming communications sent under Article 26, 27 or 28 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 and then allocating them without delay to the competent authorities within that Member State who are concerned or possibly concerned by the infringement in question.
Article 3 
The electronic database shall include functionality allowing competent authorities, single liaison offices, the Commission and entities issuing external alerts pursuant to Article 27(1) or (2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 to indicate whether information provided by them via the electronic database is to be available for disclosure for the purposes permitted by points (a) and (b) of Article 33(3) of that Regulation without the need for further consultation with them under that Article.
Article 4 
This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 17 January 2020.
Done at Brussels, 20 December 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN