Functioning of the computer system for data exchange
Article 66
1. The Commission and the authorities designated by the Member State pursuant to the basic Regulation as well as the bodies to which that task has been delegated shall record into the computer system for data exchange the documents for which they are responsible and any update thereto, in the required format. 2. Member States shall centralise and submit to the Commission requests for access rights to the computer system for data exchange. 3. Exchanges of data and transactions shall bear an electronic signature as defined in Article 2(1) of Directive 1999/93/EC. The Member States and the Commission shall recognise the legal effectiveness and admissibility of the electronic signature used in the computer system for data exchange as evidence in legal proceedings. 4. The cost of developing the computer system shall be financed by the general budget of the European Communities under Article 46(1) of the basic Regulation. Any costs of an interface between the common computer system for data exchange and national, regional and local computer systems and any costs of adapting national regional and local systems to requirements under the basic Regulation shall be eligible under Article 46(2) of that Regulation.