Each Member State shall designate a national administrator. The Member State shall access and administer pursuant to Article 10 its own accounts and the accounts in the Union Registry under its jurisdiction through its national administrator as defined in Annex I.

The Member States and the Commission shall ensure that there is no conflict of interest amongst national administrators, the central administrator and account holders.

Each Member State shall notify the Commission of the identity and contact details of its national administrator, including an emergency telephone number to be used in the case of a security incident.

The Commission shall coordinate the implementation of this Regulation with the national administrators of each Member State and the central administrator. In particular, the Commission shall pursue all appropriate consultations in accordance with the Treaties on issues and procedures related to the operation of registries regulated under this Regulation and the implementation of this Regulation. The terms of cooperation, agreed between the central administrator and the national administrators shall include common operational procedures for the implementation of this Regulation, change and incident management procedures for the Union Registry, technical specifications for the functioning and reliability of the Union Registry and the EUTL and provisions for the tasks of the controllers of personal data gathered pursuant to this Regulation. The terms of cooperation may include the modalities of the consolidation of the external communication links, the information technology infrastructure and user account access procedures. To ensure harmonised implementation of Chapter 3 of Title I, every two years the central administrator shall provide the national administrators a report on the relevant practices in place in each Member State.

The central administrator, the competent authorities and national administrators shall only perform processes necessary to carry out their respective functions in accordance with Directive 2003/87/EC and Regulation (EU) 2018/842.