(9)Competent authorities should be able to efficiently conduct investigations on possible market abuse cases. In order to do so, it is necessary that to enable competent authorities to identify within the issuer, the offeror, or the person seeking admission to trading the persons that are dealing with the delay of disclosure of inside information without requesting that information to the relevant entity. Hence, the issuer, the offeror, or the person seeking admission to trading should provide their competent authority with the identity of the person who informed the competent authority about the delay of the disclosure of the inside information, and of the person or persons that decided to delay that disclosure. To enable competent authorities to assess whether the conditions laid down in Article 88(2) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 are met, the issuer, the offeror, or the person seeking admission to trading should also inform their competent authority about of the duration of the delay.