Article 19 — Access by insolvency practitioners to national registers and databases

1. Member States shall ensure that insolvency practitioners, regardless of the Member State in which they have been appointed, have direct and expeditious access to information necessary for the purpose of identifying and tracing assets belonging to the insolvency estate, as well as assets subject to avoidance actions, that is held in existing national registers and databases as listed in the Annex, in accordance with conditions provided for by national law. 2. With respect to access to the national registers and databases listed in the Annex, each Member State shall ensure that the insolvency practitioners appointed in other Member States are not subject to substantive access conditions that are de jure or de facto less favourable than those applicable to insolvency practitioners appointed in that Member State. 3. Member States shall notify the Commission of the existing national registers and databases as listed in the Annex by 22 April 2029 and shall notify it of any changes thereto. The Commission shall publish the information notified by Member States pursuant to the first subparagraph in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the European e-Justice Portal.