S.L. 549.43 Art. 20Register of producers.

(1) The competent authority shall maintain and make available in accordance with this regulation a register relating to the producers who register in accordance with regulation 21 and containing information relating to producer registration as prescribed in Schedule 6.

(2) The competent authority shall ensure that the register of producers is publicly available free of charge and shall be uploaded online on its website.

(3) The register may be kept in any form but shall be indexed and arranged so that members of the public can readily trace information contained in it.

(4) The competent authority shall amend the relevant entry in the register to record any change to the information entered and shall note the date on which the amendment is made.

(5) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this regulation shall require a register maintained by the competent authority to contain information relating to any criminal proceedings (including prospective proceedings) or to anything which is the subject matter of such proceedings, at any time before those proceedings are finally disposed of.

(6) Nothing in this regulation shall require a register maintained by the competent authority to contain any information which has been superseded by later information after four years have elapsed from that later information being entered in the register.