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

2. 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:

(a) monitoring compliance with the registration procedures referred to in Article 4;

(b) implementing, and ensuring compliance with, rules governing access to, and the provision of, short-term accommodation rental services in accordance with Union law.

3. 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:

(a) authorities tasked with developing laws, regulations or administrative provisions concerning access to, and the provision of, short-term accommodation rental services;

(b) entities or persons carrying out scientific research, analytical activities or developing new business models, where this is necessary for the purposes of those activities. This notwithstanding, those competent authorities may share with the authorities referred to in point (a) the information contained in Article 5(1)(a), points (i) to (iv), in accordance with the laws of the Member State and subject to appropriate safeguards for data protection, including, where applicable, Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

4. 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 . Access to that data by the national or regional statistical offices shall be subject to appropriate safeguards for data protection.