Article 12

Member States shall establish a list of the competent authorities responsible for areas where a registration procedure applies pursuant to Article 4.

Access to the information transmitted pursuant to Article 9 shall be granted to the competent authority only where the intended purpose of the processing is one of the following:

The competent authorities listed pursuant to paragraph 1 shall retain activity data in a secure manner as long as necessary for the purposes referred to in paragraph 2 and no longer than 18 months after their receipt. Those competent authorities may, in accordance with the laws of the Member State concerned, share activity data without any data that can identify individual units or hosts, including registration numbers and URLs of the listings and the relevant information transmitted pursuant to Article 5(1)(a), points (i) to (iv), in particular with the following:

Member States shall designate the national entity responsible for transmitting, for each unit, the activity data and the registration number obtained pursuant to Articles 5 and 9, the municipality where the unit is located and the maximum number of available bed places that the unit accommodates, on a monthly basis, to national, and where relevant, regional statistical offices and make such data available to Eurostat for the purpose of compiling statistics in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 8 ). Access to that data by the national or regional statistical offices shall be subject to appropriate safeguards for data protection.