Article 8
Validation of information
1. The application of the electronic central register shall validate information transmitted by competent authorities to EBA in order to avoid any missing information or duplication of information.
2. In order to avoid any missing information, the application of the electronic central register shall perform data validation on the fields filled in or transmitted by the competent authorities to EBA with the exception of the field for the commercial name of the natural or legal person.
3. In order to avoid duplication of the information, the application of the register shall perform data validation on each of the following fields:
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for payment institutions, natural or legal persons benefiting from an exemption pursuant to Article 32 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366, account information service providers, electronic money institutions, legal persons benefiting from an exemption pursuant to Article 9 of Directive 2009/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), the institutions referred to in points (4) to (23) of Article 2(5) of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (5) and the persons whose authorisation or registration was withdrawn:
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for agents of payment institutions, natural or legal person benefiting from an exemption pursuant to Article 32 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366, account information service providers, electronic money institutions and legal persons benefiting from an exemption pursuant to Article 9 of Directive 2009/110/EC:
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for service providers carrying out services under points (i) and (ii) of point (k) and point (l) of Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366:
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4. Where the status of authorisation or registration of a natural or legal person, which has agents providing payment services on its behalf, has changed from ‘authorised’ or ‘registered’ to ‘withdrawn’, the application of the electronic central register shall not perform data validation on the agents linked to that person.
5. Competent authorities shall receive a response from the application of the electronic central register about the result of the data validation process as soon as possible in a clear and unequivocal way. The result of the data validation shall also include the percentage change to the content of the information previously transmitted.
6. Where the transmitted information fails the validation process, EBA shall include in its response to the competent authorities all the reasons for the rejection.
7. In the event of a failed validation where the amendments to the content of the national public register are related to granting or withdrawal of authorisation or registration, competent authorities which transmit information automatically shall, by the end of the day on which the validation failed, transmit a corrected or updated batch file with the whole set of information or manually insert the new amendments made to the content of their national public registers related to the granting or withdrawal of authorisation or registration.
8. For the purposes of the validation of national identification numbers competent authorities shall notify to EBA the types and the formats of the national identification numbers which they use in their national registers.
9. The application of the electronic central register shall enable competent authorities to insert an agent more than once in the register where the agent provides payment services on behalf of more than one natural or legal person. Each insertion shall be treated as a separate record.
(4) Directive 2009/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on the taking up, pursuit and prudential supervision of the business of electronic money institutions amending Directives 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 2000/46/EC (OJ L 267, 10.10.2009, p. 7).
(5) Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC (OJ L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 338).