Article 15 Issuing and registration of economic operator identifier codes

Upon receipt of a request pursuant to Article 14, the ID issuer shall generate an economic operator identifier code, which consists of the following data elements, to be placed in the following order:

Within two working days, the ID issuer shall transmit the code to the requesting operator.

All the information submitted to the ID issuer in accordance with Article 14(2), and the corresponding identifier codes, shall form part of a registry to be established, managed and kept up to date by the F1... ID issuer.

In duly justified cases, F2the Commissioners may, in accordance with F3Part 6 of the Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019, require the ID issuer to deactivate an economic operator identifier code. In such cases F4the Commissioners shall inform the economic operator or the operator of a first retail outlet of the deactivation, together with the grounds for such deactivation. The deactivation of an economic operator identifier code shall lead to the automatic deactivation of related facility identifier codes and machine identifier codes.

Economic operators and operators of first retail outlets shall exchange information on their respective economic operator identifier codes in order to allow economic operators to record and transmit the transactional information, as provided under Article 33.