(1) The single point of contact within the meaning of the third sentence of Article 70(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 is the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur).
(2) The market surveillance authorities and the notifying authorities shall provide the single point of contact with information about their tasks and their electronic contact address, as well as the contact details of a contact person and of a person representing that person. The market surveillance authorities and the notifying authorities shall inform the single point of contact without delay of any changes to that information.
(3) The single point of contact shall publicly announce the electronic contact addresses under subsection (2) as well as its own electronic contact address. The single point of contact shall communicate to the European Commission the names and tasks of the market surveillance authorities and the notifying authorities, the electronic contact addresses referred to in the first sentence, and any subsequent changes to those contact addresses. The single point of contact shall publish that information on the website of the Federal Network Agency.
(4) The single point of contact shall receive submissions from the AI Office established under Article 64 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, from the public and from other contact points at the level of the Member States of the European Union and of the European Union itself, and shall forward them to the competent national bodies.
(5) Unless this Act provides otherwise, the authorities competent under sections 2 and 3 shall fulfil the reporting obligations arising from Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 through the single point of contact, by providing it with the documents required to fulfil the respective reporting obligation in electronic form. For that purpose, the single point of contact shall provide the competent authorities with electronic forms to be used. The first sentence does not apply to the reporting obligation under Article 70(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, for the fulfilment of which the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation is responsible. By way of derogation from the first sentence, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) may fulfil its reporting obligations under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 directly vis-à-vis the other Member States and the institutions of the European Union, in so far as legal reasons preclude fulfilment through the single point of contact.