Division 3.7.1 Informing the Member States if an alert is matched

The following procedure has been adopted:

1. (a)

   a hit on an individual on which an Article 95 alert has been issued should always be communicated to the Sirene bureau of the issuing Member State.

   If necessary the Sirene bureau of the issuing Member State shall then send any relevant, specific information and the particular measures that should be taken to the Sirene bureau of the Member State that matched the alert.

   When notifying the party, which issued the alert of a hit, the Article of the Schengen Convention, which applies to the hit, should be indicated in heading 090 of a G form.

   If the hit concerns a person who is the subject of an Article 95 alert, the Sirene bureau of the Member State that matched the alert should inform the Sirene bureau of the issuing Member State of the hit by telephone after sending a G form;

2. (b)

   a Member State which had previously indicated a wish to issue an alert on a person or object already the subject of an alert should be informed of any hits on the original alert by the Member State that actually issued that alert;

3. (c)

   C.SIS automatically communicates the deletion of an alert to all Member States. It is therefore possible for a Member State to consider entering an alert, which was previously considered incompatible with an alert, which has now been deleted.