**Target:** Proposal for a regulation — Article 59 — paragraph 1

## Text proposed by the Commission

1. National competent authorities shall be established or designated by each Member State for the purpose of ensuring the application and implementation of this Regulation. National competent authorities shall be organised so as to safeguard the objectivity and impartiality of their activities and tasks.

## Amendment of the European Parliament

1. Each Member State shall designate one national supervisory authority, which shall be organised so as to safeguard the objectivity and impartiality of its activities and tasks by …[three months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation] .