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Article 18 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 18 Availability of electronic copies of documents and information 1. Electronic copies of the documents and information referred to in Articles 14 and 14a shall also be made publicly available through the system of interconnection of registers. Member States may also make available the documents and information referred to in Articles 14 and 14a for types of companies other than those listed in Annexes II and IIB. Article 16a(3), (4) and (5) shall apply mutatis mutandis to electronic copies of the documents and information made publicly available through the system of interconnection of registers. 2. Member States shall ensure that the documents and information referred to in Articles 14 and 14a, Article 19(2), Article 19a(2) and Article 19b are available through the system of interconnection of registers in a standard message format and accessible by electronic means. Member States shall also ensure that minimum standards for the security of data transmission are respected. 3. The Commission shall provide a search service in all the official languages of the Union in respect of companies registered in Member States, in order to make available through the portal: 4. Member States shall ensure that, through the system of interconnection of registers, the first names, surnames and date of birth, or equivalent information when that date is not recorded in the national register, of the persons referred to in Article 14, point (d), Article 14a, points (i) and (j), Article 19(2), point (g), Article 19a(2), point (g), Article 30(1), point (e) and Article 36(4), point (f), where such persons are natural persons, are made publicly available. Where the persons referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are legal persons, the name of the company, its legal form, its EUID or, where the EUID is not applicable, its registration number shall be made publicly available through the system of interconnection of registers. 5. Member States shall ensure that, through the system of interconnection of registers, the first names, surnames and the date of birth, or equivalent information when that date is not recorded in the national register, of the persons referred to in Article 3 of Directive 2009/102/EC, where such persons are natural persons, are made publicly available. Where the persons referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are legal persons, the name of the company, its legal form, its EUID or, where the EUID is not applicable, its registration number shall be made publicly available through the system of interconnection of registers. 6. Member States shall ensure that the registers, authorities or persons or bodies mandated under national law to deal with any aspect of the procedures within the scope of this Directive do not store personal data transmitted through the system of interconnection of registers for the purposes of Articles 13g, 28a and 30a, unless otherwise provided for by Union or national law.’ ; the documents and information referred to in Articles 14 and 14a, Article 19(2), Article 19a(2) and Article 19b, including for types of companies other than those listed in Annexes II and IIB, where such documents and information are made available by Member States; the documents and information referred to in Articles 86g, 86n, 86p, 123, 127a, 130, 160g, 160n and 160p; the explanatory labels, available in all the official languages of the Union, listing that information and the types of those documents.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.