(1) The listed company may request that an intermediary serving as depository of shares of stock in the company disclose information regarding the identity of stockholders and regarding the next intermediary. In terms of its format and content, this request is governed by the requirements stipulated by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212.
(2) Information regarding the identity of stockholders consists of the data set out in Article 3 (2) read in conjunction with table 2 (C) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212. In the case of non-registered companies, their shareholders are to be identified by providing the information set out in sentence 1. Where several beneficiaries are entitled to one share of stock, they are to be identified by providing the information set out in sentence 1.
(3) The company’s request for information is to be forwarded by each intermediary to the next intermediary in the chain, within the time limit stipulated by Article 9 (6) sub-paragraph 1, 2 or 3 sentence 3 and (7) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212, until this request has been received by the last intermediary.
(4) The last intermediary is to transmit the information that serves to comply with the company’s request for information. This does not apply wherever the company requests that transmission be effected by an intermediary in the chain; in such event, intermediaries are under obligation to forward the information to this intermediary or to the next intermediary, respectively, in each case without undue delay. The intermediary the company is requesting to effect transmission is under obligation to transmit to the company the information received without undue delay. In terms of its format, content and limitation in time, the reply to the request for information is governed by the requirements stipulated by Articles 2, 3, 9 (6) sub-paragraphs 2 and 3 and (7) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212.
(5) Subsections (1) to (4) also apply to the request for information by a listed company whose seat is in some other Member State of the European Union. Section 67a (2) sentence 1 applies accordingly to subsections (1) to (5) sentence 1.