(1) 1If it relates to legal persons under private law and registered partnerships under section 20 as well as legal arrangements under section 21, the data specified in section 22 (1) sentence 1 is accessible via the European Central Platform established by Article 22(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 relating to certain aspects of company law. 2Section 23 (1) to (3) applies, with the necessary modifications. 3To enable access via the Central European Platform, the registrar entity transmits the data notified to the transparency register under section 20 (1) and section 21 as well as the index data under section 22 (2) to the Central European Platform within the meaning of Article 22(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 and Article 4a(1) of Directive 2009/101/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on coordination of safeguards which, for the protection of the interests of members and third parties, are required by Member States of companies within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 48 of the Treaty, with a view to making such safeguards equivalent (OJ L 258 of 1 October 2009, page 11), as most recently amended by Directive 2013/24/EU (OJ L 158 of 10 June 2013, page 365), insofar as the transmission of such data is necessary in order to provide access to the original data via the search function on the website of the Central European Platform.
(2) 1The transparency register must be interconnected with the registers of other member states of the European Union within the meaning of Article 22(2) of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 via the Central European Platform established by Article 22(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/1132. 2The connection of the member states’ registers via the platform must be set up in accordance with the technical specifications and procedures established by implementing acts adopted by the European Commission in accordance with Article 24 of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 and Article 1(17) of Directive (EU) 2018/843.
(3) To the extent that it relates to legal persons under private law and registered partnerships under section 20 or legal arrangements under section 21, data under section 22 (1) sentence 1 will be available through the transparency register and the Central European Platform established by Article 22(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 for a period of at least five years and no more than ten years after the legal persons under private law, registered partnerships or legal arrangements have been struck off from the register, provided they are held in the register, and following completion of the winding-up.
(4) The Federal Ministry of Finance is authorised, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, by means of a statutory instrument requiring the consent of the Bundesrat, to issue the necessary rules on the details of electronic data traffic and its handling pursuant to subsection (1), including specifications for data formats and terms of payment provided that no regulations are contained in the implementing acts adopted by the European Commission in accordance with Article 24 of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 and Article 31a of Directive (EU) 2018/843.
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