{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-192/annex/division-A/division-3/division-3.1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/192",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 192/2009 of 11 March 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes, as regards the exchange of confidential data between the Commission (Eurostat) and Member States (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-192",
  "path": "annex/division/A/division/3/division/3.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3.1",
  "heading": "First data exchange",
  "text": "The first data exchange takes place after the start of the processing of new data on legal units received from private providers of basic register data. If there is more than one provider, data referring to the same legal units is linked. The Commission (Eurostat) transmits to the NSAs the following data sets with information on the results of this linkage process and information on legal units. NSAs transmit back the same data sets with the corrected and completed information including confidentiality flags.\nData set with results of the linkage process\nContents\nIdentity number (1.1)\nName (1.2a)\nValue Added Tax (VAT) registration number or, failing that, other administrative identity number (1.3)\nData sets with information on legal units\nContents\nIdentity number (1.1)\nName (1.2a)\nAddress (including postcode) at the most detailed level (1.2b)\nOptional: Telephone and fax numbers, electronic mail address, and information to permit electronic collection of data (1.2c)\nValue Added Tax (VAT) registration number or, failing that, other administrative identity number (1.3)\nDate of incorporation for legal persons or date of official recognition as an economic operator for natural persons (1.4)\nDate on which the legal unit ceased to be part of an enterprise (as identified in 3.3) (1.5)\nLegal form (1.6)\nReference to the register of intra-Community operators, and to customs files or to the register of extra-Community operators (1.7a)\nOptional: Reference to balance sheet data, and to the balance of payments or foreign direct investment register, and to the farm register (1.7b)\nIdentity number of the truncated enterprise group (4.1), to which the unit belongs (1.8)",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/192/annex/division/A/division/3/division/3.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:37.440206+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}