1.   Competent authorities shall designate a single contact point for the communication and transmission of the information and documents referred to in Article 3. Competent authorities shall notify the details of that contact point, and any modification of that contact point, to every other competent authority.

2.   Competent authorities shall ensure that their designated email address, or other communication channel, for receiving notifications is monitored each working day.

3.   Competent authorities shall send the information and documents referred to in Article 3 by email or, if other communication channels are chosen, in a machine-readable format, to the contact point referred to in paragraph 1.