# 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), Division 2.15.1: Consulting the Member States with a view to adding a flag

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The following procedure shall apply:
(a) if a Member State requires a flag to be added it shall request, via its SIRENE Bureau, the flag from the issuing Member State by means of an F form, using fields 071-074. For more details concerning the national law field 080 and, where appropriate, for supplementary information explaining the reason for the flag and other supplementary information concerning the alert, field 083 shall be used;
(b) the Member State that issued the alert shall add the requested flag immediately;
(c) once information has been exchanged, based on the information provided for in the consultation process by the Member State requesting the flag, the alert may need to be amended or deleted or the request may be withdrawn.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/406/annex/division/2/division/2.15/division/2.15.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-406/annex/division-2/division-2.15/division-2.15.1
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