Commission Decision of 4 March 2008 adopting the SIRENE Manual and other implementing measures for the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) (notified under document number C(2008) 774) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/333/EC) (c. 333)

ANNEX SIRENE Manual and other implementing measures(1)

2. GENERAL PROCEDURES

2.15. Relations of SIRENE and Europol

The Europol has the right to access and to directly search data entered into the SIS II according to SIS II Decision Articles 26, 36 and 38. Europol may request further information from the Member States concerned in accordance with the provisions of the Europol Convention. In accordance with national legislation, cooperation with the National Europol Unit (ENU) shall be established in order to ensure that the SIRENE Bureau is informed of any exchange of supplementary information between Europol and the ENU concerning alerts in the SIS II. In case communication on national level concerning SIS II alerts is done by the ENU, confusion of end-users shall be avoided.

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This text is identical to the text in the Annex to Commission Decision 2008/334/JHA (see page 41 of this Official Journal).