Article 6

1. Member States shall ensure that, from 1 January 2026, information on de minimis aid granted is registered in a central register at national or Union level. Information in the central register shall contain the identification of the beneficiary, the aid amount, the granting date, the granting authority, the aid instrument and the sector involved on the basis of the statistical classification of economic activities in the Union (‘NACE classification’). The central register shall be set up in such a way as to enable easy public access to the information whilst ensuring compliance with the Union rules on data protection, including through the pseudonymisation of specific entries where necessary. 2. Member States shall register the information listed in paragraph 1 in the central register on de minimis aid granted by any authority within the Member State concerned within 20 working days following the grant of the aid. Such information on de minimis aid received by financial intermediaries implementing de minimis aid schemes shall be registered within 20 working days from reception of the report pursuant to paragraph 5. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure the accuracy of the data contained in the central register. 3. Member States shall keep records of the registered information on de minimis aid for 10 years from the date on which the aid was granted. 4. A Member State shall grant new de minimis aid in accordance with this Regulation only after it has verified that the new de minimis aid will not raise the total amount of de minimis aid granted to the undertaking concerned to a level above the ceiling laid down in Article 3(2) of this Regulation and that all the conditions laid down in this Regulation are complied with. 5. For the application of paragraph 1, financial intermediaries implementing de minimis aid schemes shall report the total amount of de minimis aid received by them, on a quarterly basis to the Member State within 10 days from the end of a given quarter. The date of granting shall be the last day of a quarter. 6. Member States using a central register at national level shall submit to the Commission by 30 June every year aggregated data on de minimis aid granted for the previous year. The aggregated data shall contain the number of beneficiaries, the overall amount of de minimis aid granted and the overall amount of de minimis aid granted per sector (using the ‘NACE classification’). The first data submission shall be for de minimis aid granted from 1 January to 31 December 2026. Member States may report to the Commission on earlier periods where the aggregated data are available. 7. On written request by the Commission, the Member State concerned shall provide the Commission, within 20 working days or a longer period set out in the request, with all the information that the Commission considers necessary for assessing whether the conditions of this Regulation have been complied with, and in particular the total amount of de minimis aid within the meaning of this Regulation and of other de minimis regulations received by any undertaking.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.