Registration of operators and sites in the central system
Article 7
1. Where an operator or one of sites of the operator involved in the shipment of waste is not registered in the central system, the user representing them shall provide to the competent authority of the Member State in which the operator concerned has a registered office, the data regarding that operator that are set out in Annex II, Part E, point 2 and shall request for the operator or the site of the operator concerned to be registered in the central system. 2. The competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall, no later than five working days from the receipt of the request referred to in paragraph 1, verify the information received and take one of the following actions: (a) register the operator, or the site of the operator, and authorise the first user to represent the operator or site concerned; (b) ask for additional information; (c) refuse the registration. 3. The competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall review the additional information received in accordance with paragraph 2, point (b), within three working days and shall take one of the following actions: (a) register the operator, or the site of the operator, and authorise the first user to represent the operator or site concerned; (b) refuse the registration. 4. The competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall inform the operator, or the site of the operator, of the action taken pursuant to paragraph 3 no later than five working days from the receipt of the request referred to in paragraph 1 or no later than three working days after having received the additional information pursuant to paragraph 2, point (b). Where the competent authority refuses the registration of the operator, or the site of the operator, it shall inform the user requesting that registration about the reasons for the refusal. 5. Where the competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 authorises the first user to represent the operator or site concerned, such authorised user shall be a master user. 6. Where an operator based in a third country not connected to the central system is not registered in the central system, the Member State’s competent authority which in the context of a notification would act as competent authority of dispatch or destination, respectively, shall register the operator concerned based in the third country in the central system. The registration shall be performed at the request of the operator intending to act as a notifier or waste receiving facility, respectively, by recording in the central system the data of the operator referred to in Annex II Part E, point 2. 7. When registering operators in the central system, the competent authorities shall only verify whether the operator concerned exists and whether the user claiming to represent it is entitled to represent the operator concerned. When registering a site of an operator in the central system, the competent authority shall, in addition to the information indicated in the first subparagraph, verify whether the site is actually linked with the operator concerned. 8. Where a Member State has more than one competent authority, that Member State shall lay down rules on the division of competences between the competent authorities carrying out the registration of operators having a registered office in the territory of that Member State in the central system. 9. Where there is more than one competent authority in a Member State, the user representing an operator having a registered office in the territory of that Member State, shall indicate which of the competent authorities is competent for the registration of the operator in accordance with the applicable national rules referred to in paragraph 8.