Recital 10

(10) The information to be made publicly accessible on ESAP should be collected by collection bodies designated for the purpose of collecting the information that entities are required to make public, or by collection bodies designated for the collection of information that is submitted by entities on a voluntary basis. In order to ensure the full and cost-efficient functioning of ESAP, the collection bodies should make the information available to ESAP in an automated manner through a single application programming interface (API). The collection bodies should draw, to the extent possible, upon existing information collection procedures and infrastructure, at Union and national level, for the transmission of information to ESAP without undue delay. There should be no obligation to make the information accessible on ESAP before that information is made public pursuant to the applicable sectoral Union legislative acts. For the purpose of making information accessible on ESAP, the collection bodies should store the information submitted by the entities or generated by the collection bodies themselves, unless appropriate alternative storage mechanisms are already provided for under Union law. The collection bodies should not be required to build new storage mechanisms where existing Union or national mechanisms can be relied on for the storage of information. Member States should designate at least one collection body for the collection of information submitted by entities on a voluntary basis, which could be the same as the bodies collecting information submitted by entities on a mandatory basis.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.