Division 3.5.4 Systematic request for a flag to be added to a Member State's nationals

The following procedure has been adopted:

1. (a)

   a Member State may ask the Sirene bureaux of the other Member States to add a flag as a matter of course to Article 95 alerts issued on its nationals where permitted;

2. (b)

   any Member State wishing to do so shall send a written request to the Member States, which it would like to cooperate;

3. (c)

   any Member State(s) to whom such a request is addressed shall add a flag for the Member State in question immediately after the alert is issued;

4. (d)

   this procedure shall continue to be binding until a written instruction is made for it to be cancelled.

If the circumstances mentioned in Article 95(2) no longer exist, the Member State that requested the flag must ask as soon as possible for the flag to be revoked.