CHAPTER II

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN RELATION TO IMI

IMI coordinators
Article 6
1
The Secretary of State
shall appoint one national IMI coordinator whose responsibilities shall include:
a
registering or validating registration of IMI coordinators and competent authorities;
b
acting as the main contact point for IMI actors of the
United Kingdom
for issues relating to IMI, including providing information on aspects relating to the protection of personal data in accordance with this Regulation;
c
acting as interlocutor of the Commission for issues relating to IMI including providing information on aspects relating to the protection of personal data in accordance with this Regulation;
d
providing knowledge, training and support, including basic technical assistance, to IMI actors of the
United Kingdom
;
e
ensuring the efficient functioning of IMI as far as it is within their control, including the provision of timely and adequate responses by IMI actors of the
United Kingdom
to requests for administrative cooperation.
2
The 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.
3
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.
4
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.

Competent authorities
Article 7
1
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
legislation listed in the Annex
, an adequate response is provided within the shortest possible period of time, and in any event within
any deadline set by that legislation
.
2
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
the United Kingdom
, for purposes compatible with the purposes for which the data were originally collected.
3
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.

Commission
Article 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Access rights of IMI actors and users
Article 9
1
Only IMI users shall have access to IMI.
2
The Secretary of State shall designate the IMI coordinators and competent authorities and the areas in which they have competence.
3
Each IMI actor
of the United Kingdom
shall grant and revoke, as necessary, appropriate access rights to its IMI users in the
... area for which it is competent.
4
Appropriate means shall be put in place by the
Secretary of State and United Kingdom
bodies, offices and agencies to ensure that IMI users
of the United Kingdom
are allowed to access personal data processed in IMI only on a need-to-know basis and within the
... area or areas for which they were granted access rights in accordance with paragraph 3.
5
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
domestic law
.
6
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.

Confidentiality
Article 10
1
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.
2
IMI actors
of 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.

Administrative cooperation procedures
Article 11
IMI shall be based on administrative cooperation procedures implementing the provisions of the legislation listed in the Annex.

External actors
Article 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 October 2018 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (Text with EEA relevance).
Regulation revoked (E.W.S.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 5
Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(i)
Words in Art. 6(1)(b) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(ii)
Words in Art. 6(1)(d) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(iii)
Words in Art. 6(1)(e) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(iv)
Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(b)
Art. 6(3) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(c)
Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(6)(a)(i)
Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(6)(a)(ii)
Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(6)(b)
Art. 8 omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(7)
Art. 9(2) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(a)
Words in Art. 9(3) inserted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(b)(i)
Words in Art. 9(3) omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(b)(ii)
Words in Art. 9(4) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(i)
Words in Art. 9(4) inserted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(ii)
Words in Art. 9(4) omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(iii)
Words in Art. 9(5) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(d)
Art. 10(1) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(9)(a)
Words in Art. 10(2) inserted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(9)(b)
Art. 11 substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(10)
Art. 12 omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(11)