Article 9 — Tasks relating to digitalisation and simplification

1. In the areas of Union law falling within the Agency’s competence, the Agency shall, where appropriate, collect and provide objective, reliable and comparable statistics, information and data, to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of existing measures. Such tasks shall include the facilitation and promotion of electronic certificates, the making use of existing databases, and the use of innovative IT and artificial intelligence tools. 2. The Agency shall assist the Commission in the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council with the following tasks: (a) to develop and maintain the common IT components and services of the European Maritime Single Window environment (EMSWe), established by Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1239, under the responsibility of the Commission; (b) to maintain the EMSWe Data Set, established by Regulation (EU) 2019/1239, the Message Implementation Guide and the templates of the digital spreadsheets; (c) to provide non-binding technical guidance to the Member States for the implementation of the EMSWe; (d) to facilitate better re-use and sharing of data exchanged in the EMSWe using SafeSeaNet. 3. The Agency shall provide assistance, including training, to the Member States, upon their request and without prejudice to the existing technical solutions for their registries or their rights and obligations as flag States, in the digitalisation of their registries and their procedures facilitating the uptake of electronic certificates and the reduction of administrative burden. 4. When developing IT tools and other technical solutions, the Agency shall always take cybersecurity into account.