Division 4.6.1 Exchange of information when refusing entry or expelling from the Schengen territory

The following procedure shall apply:

1. (a)

   a Member State may ask to be informed of any hits on alerts for refusal of entry or stay that it has issued. Any Member State that wishes to take up this option shall ask the other Member States in writing;

2. (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;

3. (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, given in an M form, shall include the following:

   • the type and reason for the decision,

   • the authority issuing the decision,

   • the date of the decision,

   • the date of service (the date on which the decision was served),

   • the date of enforcement,

   • the date on which the decision expires or the length of validity.

If 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.

There 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.