31The applicant submits that, under the first subparagraph of Article 22(2) of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC (OJ 2013 L 176, p. 338; ‘the CRD IV Directive’), and the ninth sentence of Paragraph 2c(1) of the Gesetz über das Kreditwesen (Kreditwesengesetz) (Law on credit institutions), in the version published on 9 September 1998 (BGBl. 1998 I, p. 2776), as amended by the Law of 22 February 2023 (BGBl. 2023 I Nr. 51) (‘the KWG’), which transposed that directive, BaFin and the ECB should have acknowledged receipt of the notification of the proposed acquisition within two working days, that is to say, by 19 November 2021. In the present case, BaFin allowed eight months to elapse before requesting further information, and acknowledged receipt of the complete notification only on 21 February 2023, with retroactive effect from 8 February 2023.