{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1024/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1024/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/1024",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System and repealing Commission Decision 2008/49/EC (‘the IMI Regulation’) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1024",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Access rights of IMI actors and users",
  "text": "1. Only IMI users shall have access to IMI.\n2. The Secretary of State shall designate the IMI coordinators and competent authorities and the areas in which they have competence.\n3. Each IMI actor of the United Kingdom shall grant and revoke, as necessary, appropriate access rights to its IMI users in the ... area for which it is competent.\n4. Appropriate means shall be put in place by the Secretary of State and United Kingdom bodies, offices and agencies to ensure that IMI users of the United Kingdom are allowed to access personal data processed in IMI only on a need-to-know basis and within the ... area or areas for which they were granted access rights in accordance with paragraph 3.\n5. The use of personal data processed in IMI for a specific purpose in a way that is incompatible with that original purpose shall be prohibited, unless explicitly provided for by domestic law.\n6. Where an administrative cooperation procedure involves the processing of personal data, only the IMI actors participating in that procedure shall have access to such personal data.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked (E.W.S.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 9(2) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) inserted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 October 2018 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) inserted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) omitted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by virtue of The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(5) substituted (N.I.) (9.12.2022) by The Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1306), regs. 1(2), 3(8)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/1024/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:02.477158+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."
}