1.   Competent authorities shall transmit to EBA the information to be contained in the electronic central register manually via a web user interface or automatically via an application to application interface.

2.   Competent authorities shall notify EBA about their preferred approach for transmission of information under paragraph 1.

3.   Competent authorities which have notified EBA that their preferred approach is to transmit information automatically shall be allowed to transmit information manually upon prior notification to EBA.

4.   Competent authorities shall provide EBA with a hyperlink to their national public register. EBA shall make those hyperlinks publicly available in the electronic central register.