Article 44

1. Member States shall notify the Commission of the name, postal and email addresses, responsible persons and category of activities of each technical service they have designated, as well as any subsequent modifications to those designations. That notification shall state for which elements listed in Article 16(2) or any other element specified in delegated acts referred to in the second subparagraph of that paragraph the technical services have been designated. 2. A technical service may conduct the activities referred to in Article 40(1) on behalf of the designating approval authority responsible for the type-approval only if it has been notified beforehand to the Commission in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article. 3. The technical service referred to in paragraph 2 may be designated by several designating approval authorities and notified by the Member States of those designating approval authorities irrespective of the category or categories of activities it will conduct in accordance with Article 40(1). 4. Member States shall notify the Commission of any subsequent relevant changes to the designation. 5. Where a specific organisation or competent body carrying out an activity not included in those referred to in Article 40(1), needs to be designated in accordance with the acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation, the notification shall be made in accordance with this Article. 6. The Commission shall publish on its website a list and details of the technical services notified in accordance with this Article.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-15 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.