Article 10 — National Contact Points

1. Each participating Member State shall designate an entity which shall act as its National Contact Point. Participating Member States shall ensure that their National Contact Point is composed of experts in the fields of employment and immigration from relevant national authorities. Where relevant, the National Contact Point may rely on other national competent authorities for the purpose of fulfilling the tasks set out in paragraph 2. 2. The National Contact Point shall be responsible for: (a) facilitating the functioning of the IT Platform at national level; (b) making job vacancies available on the IT Platform through the single coordinated channel, in accordance with Article 13(2); (c) removing job vacancies from the IT Platform pursuant to Article 13(12) and profiles of registered jobseekers from third countries pursuant to Article 11(2), second subparagraph, following the transmission of relevant information by the national competent authorities; (d) where applicable, notifying the Secretariat of any country-specific adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations pursuant to Article 15(1), second, third and fourth subparagraphs; (e) keeping registries of: (i) participating employers and other participating entities; (ii) employers and other entities who have been permanently excluded from the EU Talent Pool or whose access to the EU Talent Pool has been refused or suspended; (f) checking the registry referred to in point (e)(ii) before making a job vacancy available on the IT Platform and refusing access to the IT Platform by employers or other entities interested in participating in the EU Talent Pool if they are recorded in that registry or on the basis of other information on infringements of relevant Union or national law and practice that have been established; (g) sharing the registry referred to in point (e)(i) with the Steering Group and, where the participating Member State so decides, sharing that registry with the relevant national authorities; (h) where the participating Member State so decides, making the registry referred to in point (e)(i) publicly available; (i) excluding participating employers or other participating entities, or suspending access by them to the EU Talent Pool, and removing the related job vacancies from the IT Platform in accordance with Article 13(8) and (9); (j) providing the Secretariat with information as referred to Article 17(1), second subparagraph, and relevant data for the monitoring of the EU Talent Pool as referred to in Article 20; (k) providing specific information to registered jobseekers from third countries who have been selected for a job vacancy in the EU Talent Pool and participating employers and other participating entities in accordance with Article 17(2). 3. When a meeting of the Network of the National Contact Points from each participating Member State is convened by the Secretariat pursuant to Article 8 (2), point (f), representatives from the National Contact Points shall meet to exchange information and best practices on the implementation of this Regulation.