Identification of economic operators dealing with products
Article 12
1. Economic operators referred to in Articles 7 to 10 shall, upon request, identify to the market surveillance authorities, the following: (a) any other economic operator who has supplied them with a product; (b) any other economic operator to whom they have supplied a product. 2. Economic operators referred to in Articles 7 to 10 shall be able to present the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article for a period of five years after they have been supplied with the product and for a period of five years after they have supplied the product. 3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 26 to amend this Directive in order to change the period referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article for specific products. That amended period shall be longer than five years, and shall be in proportion to the economically useful life of the product concerned.