Recital 134 Cooperation and assistance via the Cooperation Group

For the purpose of ensuring entities means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;’ compliance with their obligations laid down in this Directive, Member States should cooperate with and assist each other with regard to supervisory and enforcement measures, in particular where an entity means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; provides services in more than one Member State or where its network and information systems means: an electronic communications network as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972; any device or group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a programme, carry out automatic processing of digital data; or digital data stored, processed, retrieved or transmitted by elements covered under points (a) and (b) for the purposes of their operation, use, protection and maintenance; are located in a Member State other than that where it provides services. When providing assistance, the requested competent authorityas defined in Article 46 should take supervisory or enforcement measures in accordance with national law. In order to ensure the smooth functioning of mutual assistance under this Directive, the competent authoritiesas defined in Article 46 should use the Cooperation Group means a group as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive 2013/34/EU; as a forum to discuss cases and particular requests for assistance.