In order to perform administrative measures for ensuring waterway traffic and infrastructure management, maintaining or enforcing safety of navigation and collecting statistical data, read-only access to the EHDB may be granted to authorities, other than those referred to in Article 3 of Member States, of contracting parties to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and of third countries referred to in Article 3(1) of this Regulation.

Each Member State, contracting party to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation or third country shall notify the Commission of the names and addresses of the bodies referred to in paragraph 1, indicating their user profiles in accordance with Annex 2 to this Regulation.

The read-only access to the EHDB shall be granted in accordance with Annex 4 to this Regulation.