{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-406/annex/division-2/division-2.1/division-2.1.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/406",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 1 July 2011 amending the SIRENE Manual (notified under document C(2011) 4574) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2011/406/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-406",
  "path": "annex/division/2/division/2.1/division/2.1.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.1.1",
  "heading": "Compatibility of alerts and order of priority",
  "text": "Only one alert per Member State may be entered into the SIS for any one person or object.\nTherefore, wherever possible and necessary, second and subsequent alerts on the same person or object shall be kept available at national level, so that they can be introduced when the first alert expires or is deleted.\nSeveral Member States may enter an alert on the same person or object if the alerts are compatible.\nAlerts for arrest (Article 95) are compatible with alerts for refusal of entry (Article 96), alerts on missing persons (Article 97) and alerts for a judicial procedure (Article 98). They are not compatible with alerts for discreet surveillance or specific checks (Article 99). In case of a hit on a person for whom an alert for arrest and an alert for refusal of entry have been entered, the procedures for arrest shall have priority over those for refusal of entry.\nAlerts for refusal of entry are compatible with alerts for arrest. They are not compatible with alerts on missing persons, alerts for a judicial procedure or alerts for discreet surveillance or specific checks.\nAlerts on missing persons are compatible with alerts for arrest and alerts for a judicial procedure. They are not compatible with alerts for refusal of entry and alerts for discreet surveillance or specific checks.\nAlerts for a judicial procedure are compatible with alerts for arrest and alerts for missing persons. They are not compatible with alerts for refusal of entry and alerts for discreet surveillance or specific checks.\nAlerts for discreet surveillance or specific checks are not compatible with alerts for arrest, alerts for refusal of entry, alerts on missing persons or alerts for a judicial procedure.\nWithin Article 99, alerts issued for discreet surveillance are incompatible with those for specific checks.\nDifferent categories of alerts on objects are not compatible with each other (see the table on compatibility below).\nThe order of priority for alerts on persons shall be as follows:\narrest with a view to surrender or extradition (Article 95),\nrefusal of entry or stay in the Schengen territory (Article 96),\nplacing under protection (Article 97),\ndiscreet surveillance (Article 99),\nspecific checks (Article 99),\ncommunicating whereabouts (Articles 97 and 98).\nThe order of priority for alerts on objects shall be as follows:\ndiscreet surveillance (Article 99),\nspecific check (Article 99),\nseizure or use as evidence (Article 100),\nDepartures from this order of priority may be made after consultation between the Member States, if essential national interests are at stake.\nTable of compatibility of alerts on persons\nOrder of importance\nAlert for arrest\nAlert for refusal of entry\nAlert on missing person (protection)\nAlert for discreet surveillance\nAlert for specific check\nAlert on missing person (whereabouts)\nAlert for judicial procedure\nAlert for arrest\nyes\nyes\nyes\nno\nno\nyes\nyes\nAlert for refusal of entry\nyes\nyes\nno\nno\nno\nno\nno\nAlert on missing person — protection\nyes\nno\nyes\nno\nno\nyes\nyes\nAlert for discreet surveillance\nno\nno\nno\nyes\nno\nno\nno\nAlert for specific check\nno\nno\nno\nno\nyes\nno\nno\nAlert on missing person — whereabouts\nyes\nno\nyes\nno\nno\nyes\nyes\nAlert for judicial procedure\nyes\nno\nyes\nno\nno\nyes\nyes\nTable of compatibility of alerts on objects\nOrder of importance\nAlert for discreet surveillance\nAlert for specific check\nAlert for seizure or use as evidence\nAlert for discreet surveillance\nyes\nno\nno\nAlert for specific check\nno\nyes\nno\nAlert for seizure or use as evidence\nno\nno\nyes",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/406/annex/division/2/division/2.1/division/2.1.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:44.890038+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."
}