Transfer of offline flat-files and registries
Article 20
1. ID issuers shall establish offline flat-files, as well as registries relating to the information referred to in Articles 14(2), 16(2) and 18(2), along with explanatory notes on the structures thereof. 2. Offline flat-files shall be no larger than two gigabytes per ID issuer. Each line of the flat-file shall hold one record with fields separated by delimiters such as commas or tabs. 3. ID issuers shall ensure that an up-to-date copy of all offline flat-files, registries and related explanatory notes are electronically provided via the router to the secondary repository. 4. Member States may adapt the size limit for offline flat-files referred to in paragraph 2, taking into account both the average size of available memory installed on the verification devices used for offline checks of unique identifiers and the total number of ID issuers.