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)

3. ALERTS FOR ARREST FOR SURRENDER OR EXTRADITION PURPOSES (ARTICLE 26 OF THE SIS II DECISION)

3.8. The exchange of information after a hit

See general procedure in Section 2.3.

In addition, the following procedure shall apply:

(a)

a ‘hit’ on an individual for whom an alert for arrest has been issued should always be communicated immediately to the SIRENE Bureau of the issuing Member State. Moreover, after sending the G form, it should also communicate the hit to the SIRENE Bureau of the issuing Member State by telephone;

(b)

if necessary the SIRENE Bureau of the issuing Member State shall then send any relevant, specific information on the particular measures that shall be taken by the SIRENE Bureau of the executing Member State.

In addition, the SIRENE Bureau of the issuing Member State shall inform all other SIRENE Bureaux of the hit, using an M form, provided that the hit occurred within two weeks of the date that the alert was issued. After this period, the information shall only be sent to these Member States that requested it.

(1)

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