Commission Decision of 12 December 2007 concerning the implementation of the Internal Market Information System (IMI) as regards the protection of personal data (notified under document number C(2007) 6306) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/49/EC) (repealed)

Article 9 IMI user roles

1. The IMI users may carry out one or more of the following roles: request handlers, allocators, referral handlers and local data administrators.

2. Each IMI user shall be granted a defined set of access rights associated with their user role as set out in Article 12.

3. All IMI users may search for a specific competent authority.

4. IMI users designated as request handlers may participate in information exchanges on behalf of their competent authority.

5. IMI users designated as allocators in a competent authority may attribute an information request to one or more request handlers within that authority.

IMI users designated as allocators in a coordinator may attribute an information request to one or more referral handlers within that authority.

6. IMI users in a coordinator may be designated as referral handlers.

They may approve sending requests or responses by a competent authority where such an approval process has been indicated as a requirement by the coordinator and may indicate agreement or disagreement when a requesting competent authority is not satisfied with a response received.

7. IMI users designated as local data administrators may do any of the following:

(a) update personal data about IMI users of their own authority;

(b) register additional users for their own authority;

(c) change user profiles for users of their own authority.