Article 17 — Monitoring access to, and searches of, bank account information by designated courts and administrative authorities

1. Member States shall provide that the authorities operating the bank account registers ensure that logs are kept of every instance in which a designated court or administrative authority accesses and searches bank account information. The logs shall include, in particular, the following: (a) the case reference number; (b) the date and time of the query or search; (c) the type of data used to launch the query or search; (d) the unique identifier of the results; (e) the name of the designated court or administrative authority accessing or searching the register; (f) the unique user identifier of the staff member of the designated court or administrative authority who made the query and, where applicable, of the judge or official who ordered the query or search and, where available, of the requesting insolvency practitioner. 2. The authorities operating the bank account registers shall regularly check the logs referred to in paragraph 1. 3. The logs referred to in paragraph 1 shall be used only to monitor compliance with this Directive and with applicable Union law on data protection. Those logs shall be protected by appropriate measures against unauthorised access and shall be erased five years after their creation, unless they are required for ongoing monitoring procedures.