1.   Competent authorities which have decided to transmit information to EBA automatically shall transmit the information directly from the applications of their national public registers to the application of the electronic central register.

2.   EBA and the competent authorities shall ensure secure transmission of information between the applications of their respective registers in order to safeguard the authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation of the information transmitted, using strong and widely recognised encryption techniques.

3.   Competent authorities shall transmit to EBA in a single batch file with a common standard and structured format (‘the batch file’) the whole set of information set out in paragraphs 2 to 9 of Article 1 of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/410 contained in their national public registers.

4.   The transmission of the batch file shall take place at least once each day on which the content of a national public register has been amended.

5.   Where competent authorities amend the content of their national public registers in relation to the granting or withdrawal of authorisation or registration and they are unable to transmit those changes automatically, they shall insert them manually on the same day.

6.   EBA shall allow the competent authorities to transmit a batch file once a day irrespective of whether the content of their national public registers has been amended.

7.   The information automatically transmitted to the electronic central register shall be made publicly available in the register as soon as possible after the batch file has been processed and validated by the application of the electronic central register in accordance with Article 8 and at the latest by the end of the day on which the batch file was processed and validated. All information previously transmitted, or manually inserted by a competent authority, which is publicly available in the electronic central register shall be replaced by the subsequently transmitted information by that competent authority.

8.   EBA shall not allow competent authorities to transmit a new batch file before they have received the outcome of the validation of their previously transmitted batch file.

9.   Where automatically transmitted information fails to be validated by the application of the electronic central register, the whole set of information contained in the batch file shall be rejected and not be made publicly available in that register.

10.   EBA shall insert a date and time stamp in the information automatically transmitted to the application of the electronic central register. That date and time stamp shall display the moment of the last synchronisation between the electronic central register and the national public registers.