1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the number of a hired vehicle used by an undertaking which engages in the carriage of goods by road for hire or reward is entered in the national electronic register referred to in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009.

2. The competent authorities of the Member States shall cooperate closely and shall swiftly provide one another with mutual assistance and with any relevant information in order to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of this Directive. To that end, each Member State shall designate a national contact point responsible for the exchange of information with the other Member States.

3. The exchange of the information referred to in paragraph 1 shall take place through the European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU) as specified by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/480 ( *3 ) .

4. Member States shall ensure that the information provided pursuant to this Article is used only in respect of the matters for which it was requested. Any processing of personal data shall be carried out solely for the purposes of complying with this Directive and shall comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( *4 ) .

5. Mutual administrative cooperation and assistance shall be provided free of charge.

6. A request for information shall not preclude the competent authorities from taking measures in accordance with the relevant Union and national law to investigate and prevent alleged breaches of rules resulting from the transposition of this Directive.

7. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the processing of the data referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article complies with the requirements for the information referred to in Article 16(2), point (g), of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 as specified in Article 16(2), third and fifth subparagraphs, and in Article 16(3) and (4) of that Regulation.

8. No later than 14 months after the adoption of an implementing act establishing a common formula for calculating the risk rating as referred to in Article 9(1), second subparagraph, of Directive 2006/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( *5 ) , the Commission shall adopt implementing acts, laying down the minimum requirements concerning the data to be entered in the national electronic registers in order to enable the interconnection of registers, and specifying the functionalities necessary in order to make that information accessible to the competent authorities during roadside checks. Those minimum requirements and functionalities shall comply with the requirements and functionalities established pursuant to Article 16(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 5b(2) of this Directive.

9. Member States shall ensure that the data referred to in paragraph 1 is accessible to the competent authorities during roadside checks.

( *3 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/480 of 1 April 2016 establishing common rules concerning the interconnection of national electronic registers on road transport undertakings and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1213/2010 ( OJ L 87, 2.4.2016, p. 4 )."

( *4 ) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) ( OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1 )."

( *5 ) Directive 2006/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on minimum conditions for the implementation of Regulations (EC) No 561/2006 and (EU) No 165/2014 and Directive 2002/15/EC as regards social legislation relating to road transport activities, and repealing Council Directive 88/599/EEC ( OJ L 102, 11.4.2006, p. 35 ).’;"

The following Articles are inserted:

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2022/738 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 April 2022 amending Directive 2006/1/EC on the use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road