Division (d)

In accordance with Article 112A of the Schengen Convention, personal data, held in files by the SIRENE Bureau as a result of exchanging information, shall be kept only for such time as may be required to achieve the purposes for which they were supplied. They shall in any event be deleted at the latest 1 year after the alert or alerts regarding the person or object concerned have been deleted from the SIS. However, data relating to a particular alert which a Member State has issued or to an alert in connection with which action has been taken on its territory may be stored for longer in accordance with national law.