Recital (27)

To ensure that assets can be traced efficiently in the context of cross-border insolvency proceedings, insolvency practitioners should be granted expeditious access to national registers and databases, even where those registers are located in a Member State other than that in which the insolvency practitioner concerned was appointed. Access should be granted without the involvement of any intermediary court or authority, allowing insolvency practitioners to communicate directly with the entities operating or maintaining the national registers or databases concerned. Member States should be allowed to provide for direct search by insolvency practitioners in the datasets contained by such registers or databases. The access conditions applying to insolvency practitioners appointed in another Member State should not be more cumbersome than those applying to domestic insolvency practitioners. Therefore, Member States should not apply different conditions for access solely on the basis that the applicant is an insolvency practitioner appointed in another Member State. Procedural aspects relating to receiving and granting requests submitted by insolvency practitioners, such as the language of the procedure or the verification of access conditions, should be governed by the law of the Member State in which the registers and databases are held.