Functions and responsibilities of the Commission
Article 9
Open ↗In addition to the tasks listed in Article 2(1), the Commission shall be responsible for carrying out the following tasks in relation to the Information System: (a) providing knowledge, training, and support, including technical assistance, to Information System users and Information System actors in relation to the use of the Information System and, where national expertise is required, requesting assistance from competent authorities in cases requiring national expertise; (b) granting access to Information System actors designated by each Member State; (c) granting access to Information System users, who are under the supervision of the competent authorities and cooperating with competent authorities, where necessary, to verify identification information provided by Information System users and other information whose validity can be assessed only by the Member States; (ca) developing a feature in the Information System that allows competent authorities to manage Information System users, including activities listed in point (h), and to extract data related to Information System users; (d) processing personal data in the Information System, where required in this Regulation, or for the implementation and enforcement under Regulation (EU) 2023/1115; (e) providing webservices for Information System users supported by common technical specifications to submit and manage Due Diligence Statements and Simplified Declarations, including grouping thereof, in the Information System in an automated manner, and establishing conditions for the connection and use of these webservices, where necessary; (f) providing webservices for Member States competent authorities supported by common technical specifications to perform tasks on submitted Due Diligence Statements or Simplified Declarations, including groupings thereof, in the Information System in an automated manner, and establishing conditions for the connection and use of these webservices, where necessary; (g) providing the electronic interface pursuant to Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1115; (h) suspending and revoking access of Information System users, including to address cases of non-compliance with obligations set out in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 or this Regulation upon request of the competent authorities of the Member State in which the Information System user is established, or, in case the user is established outside the Union, the competent authorities of the Member State with which the Information System user is associated according to its unique identifier provided upon registration in the Information System.