Article 6 — Development and operation of the European Certified Financial Intermediary Portal

1. The Commission shall develop and operate the European Certified Financial Intermediary Portal (the Portal) either by its own means or through a third party. 2. If the Commission decides to develop or operate the Portal through a third party, the Commission shall choose the third party and enforce the agreement concluded with that third party in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council. 3. The Portal shall serve as the electronic access point for financial intermediaries to request to register with the national registers of the Member States. The Portal shall accommodate information exchange between Member States regarding the registration or rejection of a financial intermediary, and the removal of a financial intermediary from a national register and the measures imposed on financial intermediaries. 4. Member States shall ensure that the information required pursuant to Articles 7, 8 and 9 of this Directive is provided to the Portal and that their national registers are interoperable within the Portal. 5. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the technical specifications for the operation of the Portal. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 21.