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United Kingdom

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The right of persons to have access to data, which relates to them and has been entered in the SIS II in accordance with the SIS II legal instruments, shall be exercised in accordance with the law of the Member State before which they invoke that right.

The individual concerned shall be informed as soon as possible and in any event within 60 calendar days from the date on which he/she applied for access, or sooner if national law so provides.

A Member State, which has not issued the alert, may communicate information to the person concerned only if it has previously given the Member State issuing the alert an opportunity to state its position.

Any person has the right to have factually inaccurate data relating to him or her corrected or to have unlawfully stored data relating to him or her deleted.

The individual shall be informed about the follow-up given to the exercise of these rights as soon as possible and in any event not later than three months from the date of his/her original application. The individual shall be informed sooner if national law so provides.

Notes on Annex

Footnotes

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This text is identical to the text in the Annex to Commission Decision 2008/334/JHA (see page 41 of this Official Journal).

Notes on Division 2.8

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Some information on access and rectifications procedures in the Member States can be found on the Commission's website: http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm.