Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 requires Member States to send the Commission technical files for each established geographical indication. In order to ensure the uniform implementation of this provision, detailed rules should be adopted as regards the use of information systems for the transmission of these files between the Member States and the Commission.

In the interests of efficient administration and taking account of the experience of using information systems put in place by the Commission in the past, the general principles set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009, which in particular concern the validation of the access rights of the authorities or individuals authorised to send notifications, the authenticity, integrity and legibility over time of the documents, and personal data protection should apply.

As a first step toward complete standardisation, the Commission has developed, in its own internal working procedures and in its relations with the authorities involved in the management of protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks, in accordance with Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, information systems allowing the electronic submission of the technical files for the established geographical indications as provided for in Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008. To ensure efficient management of these files, Member States should be obliged to transmit them using the available information systems.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013, which lays down the rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, does not specify the means of transmission of these technical files. It should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures established in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Spirit Drinks,