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Division 1.1 The SIRENE bureaux

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Article 92(4) of the Schengen Convention provides that Member States shall, in accordance with national legislation, exchange through the authorities designated for that purpose (SIRENE), all information necessary in connection with the entry of alerts and for allowing the appropriate action to be taken in cases where persons in respect of whom, and objects in respect of which, data have been entered in the Schengen Information System, are found as a result of searches made in this System.

To meet the operating constraints set out in the Schengen Convention, every Member State shall establish a central authority as a single contact point for exchanging supplementary information related to SIS data. This contact point, which is referred to as the SIRENE bureau, shall be fully operational on a 24/7 basis.

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Unless otherwise stipulated, all articles referred to are to be understood as articles of the Convention of 1990, implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders (Schengen Convention). Article 92(4) took effect according to Article 1(1) of Council Decision 2005/451/JHA (OJ L 158, 21.6.2005, p. 26) and Article 2(1) of Council Decision 2005/211/JHA (OJ L 68, 15.3.2005, p. 44).

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See footnote 1.

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As set out in Articles 101A and 101B of the Schengen Convention.