Common services
Article 4
1. The Commission in cooperation with Member States shall establish the following services of the OOTS (‘common services’): (a) the data service directory referred to in Article 5; (b) the evidence broker referred to in Article 6; (c) the semantic repository referred to in Article 7. 2. Member States shall ensure the technical connection between the procedure portals of evidence requesters, directly or through intermediary platforms, with the common services and the proper registration of their data services in the common services. In implementing these connections, Member States shall be guided by the descriptions contained in the technical design documents. 3. Member States shall ensure that only evidence requesters are connected, directly or through intermediary platforms, to the common services and that only evidence requesters and evidence providers can use the OOTS. Member States shall check the functioning of the connections to the common services at regular intervals.