1. Electronic copies of the documents and particulars referred to in Article 2 shall also be made publicly available through the system of interconnection of registers.
2. Member States shall ensure that the documents and particulars referred to in Article 2 are available through the system of interconnection of registers in a standard message format and accessible by electronic means. Member States shall also ensure that minimum standards for the security of data transmission are respected.
3. The Commission shall provide a search service in all the official languages of the Union in respect of companies registered in the Member States, in order to make available through the portal:
(a) the documents and particulars referred to in Article 2;
(b) the explanatory labels, available in all the official languages of the Union, listing those particulars and the types of those documents.