The competent national authorities shall register as traditional operators and newcomers all economic agents who submit an appropriate application, whether physical persons or legal entities, and whether individual agents or groups thereof, provided that they are legally constituted under the national legislation governing the exercise of the commercial activities in question and that they satisfy the provisions of this Regulation
In order to undertake the tasks of the ESCB, the ECB, assisted by the national central banks, shall collect the necessary statistical information either from the competent national authorities or directly from economic agents.
