{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-612/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/612",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 612/2013 of 25 June 2013 on the operation of the register of economic operators and tax warehouses, related statistics and reporting pursuant to Council Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 on administrative cooperation in the field of excise duties",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-612",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Maintenance of the Central Register and forwarding of modifications to national registers",
  "text": "1. When receiving an ‘Operations on the register of economic operators’ message from a central excise liaison office or liaison department containing a notification of a modification to a national register the Commission shall verify that the structure and content of the message comply with Table 2 of Annex I.\n2. Where the structure and content of the message referred to in paragraph 1 comply with Table 2 of Annex I, the following actions shall be carried out:\n(a) the Commission shall register the modification in the Central Register without delay;\n(b) a notification shall be sent to each Member State of which the central excise liaison office or liaison department is registered to receive notifications of modifications using the ‘Operations on the register of economic operators’ message set out in Table 2 of Annex I.\n3. Where the structure or content of the ‘Operations on the register of economic operators’ message referred to in paragraph 1 does not comply with Table 2 of Annex I the Commission shall return the notification to the central excise liaison office or liaison department that forwarded the notification using the ‘Refusal of update of economic operators’ message set out in Table 3 of Annex I, with a reason code specifying the reason for the refusal.\n4. Upon receipt of a ‘Refusal of update of economic operators’ message the central excise liaison office or liaison department shall carry out any necessary corrective action without delay and resubmit the notification.\n5. The central excise liaison office or liaison department of each Member State that is not registered to receive notifications of modifications from the Commission shall request an extract of the modifications applied to the Central Register at least twice a day using the ‘Common request’ message set out in Table 1 of Annex I.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/612/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:33.404086+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."
}