1.Each Member State shall designate a single competent authority to make and receive notifications within the meaning of paragraph 2. The said authority shall transmit its notifications to the Commission, which will transmit them to the competent authorities of the other Member States.
2.The notifications exchanged in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be confidential and shall cover the following points:
—they shall give a brief indication of the concrete facts which led to the measure(s), specifying the current state of the inquiry where this has not yet been completed,
—they shall specify the measure(s) taken by the Member State concerned,
The Commission shall agree with the Member States a standard form for these notifications to be used by the competent authorities.
3.Each notification shall be made as soon as possible. It shall be supplemented by the competent authority which has made it when, with a view to the application of Article 6, the Commission or the competent authority of another Member State, through the Commission, requests additional information or where new significant facts or changes need to be notified.