Designation by Member States of a central authority
Article 3
1. If a Member State has more than one national authority responsible, as referred to in Article 13(3) of Directive 91/477/EEC, for transmitting and receiving information to which this Regulation applies, the Member State shall designate one of those authorities to act as a central authority responsible for receiving such information from national authorities of other Member States and transmitting it to the relevant national authority within its territory responsible for that information. 2. A Member State may also assign its central authority the task of transmitting information from its national authorities to the national or central authority of another Member State via IMI.