Since 1 January 2016, legal persons can only apply for or opt-out of insurance via the e-VEM portal. This means that they can either apply themselves or with a digital certificate via the portal, or have their agents, e.g. accountancy services, do it for them (fee-paying service), or at the VEM points. In order to be able to do this, they always need to know the registration number of the taxable person and the date on which the insurance will start. Without these two pieces of information, the notifier cannot provide the service, which is utter nonsense, as these two pieces of information could be extracted from the records on the basis of the EMN, which the clients always have on them, whereas the previous two pieces of information are rarely. This is an unreasonable burden both for the notifiers and for the civil servants who have to give this information over the phone, as the problem could easily be solved with a link to the EMN.