CHAPTER IIIU.K. IDENTIFIER CODES FOR ECONOMIC OPERATORS, FACILITIES AND MACHINES

Article 17U.K.Issuing and registration of facility identifier codes

1.Upon receipt of a request pursuant to Article 16, the ID issuer shall generate a facility identifier code, which consists of the following data elements, to be placed in the following order:

(a)in the first position, the alphanumeric characters that constitute the ID issuer identification code assigned under Article 3(4); and

(b)in the second position, an alphanumeric sequence which is unique within the code pool of the ID issuer.

2.Within two working days from the receipt of the request, the ID issuer shall transmit the code to the requesting operator.

3.All the information submitted to the ID issuer in accordance with Article 16(2), and the corresponding identifier codes shall form part of a registry to be established, managed and kept up to date by the F1... ID issuer.

4.In duly justified cases, [F2the Commissioners] may require the ID issuer to deactivate a facility identifier code. In such cases [F2the Commissioners] shall inform the economic operator or the operator of a first retail outlet of the deactivation, together with the grounds for such deactivation. The deactivation of a facility identifier code shall lead to the automatic deactivation of related machine identifier codes.

[X15.Economic operators and operators of first retail outlets shall exchange the information on their respective facility identifier codes in order to allow economic operators to record and transmit the information on product movements, as provided under Article 32.]

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