F6The Secretary of State may, in addition, appoint one or more IMI coordinators in order to carry out any of the tasks listed in paragraph 1, in accordance with its internal administrative structure.

The Secretary of State shall inform the Commission of the IMI coordinators appointed in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 and of the tasks for which they are responsible.

All IMI coordinators may act as competent authorities. In such cases an IMI coordinator shall have the same access rights as a competent authority. Each IMI coordinator shall be a controller with respect to its own data processing activities as an IMI actor.

When cooperating by means of IMI, competent authorities, acting through IMI users in accordance with administrative cooperation procedures, shall ensure that, in accordance with the applicable F8legislation listed in the Annex, an adequate response is provided within the shortest possible period of time, and in any event within F9any deadline set by that legislation.

A competent authority may invoke as evidence any information, document, finding, statement or certified true copy which it has received electronically by means of IMI, on the same basis as similar information obtained in F10the United Kingdom, for purposes compatible with the purposes for which the data were originally collected.

Each competent authority shall be a controller with respect to its own data processing activities performed by an IMI user under its authority and shall ensure that data subjects can exercise their rights in accordance with Chapters III and IV, where necessary, in cooperation with the Commission.

Only IMI users shall have access to IMI.

The Secretary of State shall designate the IMI coordinators and competent authorities and the areas in which they have competence.

Each IMI actor F13of the United Kingdom shall grant and revoke, as necessary, appropriate access rights to its IMI users in the F14... area for which it is competent.

Appropriate means shall be put in place by the F16Secretary of State and United Kingdom bodies, offices and agencies to ensure that IMI users F17of the United Kingdom are allowed to access personal data processed in IMI only on a need-to-know basis and within the F18... area or areas for which they were granted access rights in accordance with paragraph 3.

The use of personal data processed in IMI for a specific purpose in a way that is incompatible with that original purpose shall be prohibited, unless explicitly provided for by F19domestic law.

Where an administrative cooperation procedure involves the processing of personal data, only the IMI actors participating in that procedure shall have access to such personal data.

IMI actors and IMI users of the United Kingdom shall be subject to the rules of professional secrecy or other equivalent duties of confidentiality in accordance with the law of the United Kingdom.

IMI actors F21of the United Kingdom shall ensure that requests of other IMI actors for confidential treatment of information exchanged by means of IMI are respected by IMI users working under their authority.