{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-333/annex/division-4/division-4.5/division-4.5.2/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/333",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 March 2008 adopting the SIRENE Manual and other implementing measures for the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) (notified under document number C(2008) 774) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/333/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-333",
  "path": "annex/division/4/division/4.5/division/4.5.2/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following procedure shall apply:\n(a) without prejudice to the special procedures concerning the exchange of information, which takes place in accordance with Article 5(4)(a) and (c) of the Schengen Borders Code; and without prejudice to point 4.6 which concerns the exchange of information following a hit on a third-country national who is the beneficiary of the Community right of free movement (in which case the consultation of the issuing Member State via its SIRENE Bureau is obligatory), a Member State may ask to be informed of any hits on alerts for refusal of entry or stay that it has issued.\nAny Member State that wishes to take up this option shall ask the other Member States in writing;\n(b) the executing Member State may take the initiative and inform the issuing Member State that the alert has been matched and that the third-country national has not been granted entry or has been expelled from the Schengen territory;\n(c) if, on its territory, a Member State intercepts a third-country national for whom an alert has been issued, the issuing Member State, upon request, shall forward the information required to return the person concerned. Depending on the needs of the executing Member State and, if available at the issuing Member State, this information shall include the following:\nthe type and reason for the decision,\nthe authority issuing the decision,\nthe date of the decision,\nthe date of service (the date on which the decision was served),\nthe date of enforcement,\nthe date on which the decision expires or the length of validity.\nIf a person on whom an alert has been issued is intercepted at the border, the procedures set out in the Schengen Borders Code, and by the issuing Member State, shall be followed.\nThere might also be an urgent need for supplementary information to be exchanged via the SIRENE Bureaux in specific cases in order to identify an individual with certainty (see Section 2.8.3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/333/annex/division/4/division/4.5/division/4.5.2/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:50.916912+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}