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)

2.9. Entering an alias U.K.

In order to avoid incompatible alerts of any category due to an alias to be entered, or to avoid problems for innocent victims, the SIRENE bureaux shall, if this information is available to them, inform each other about aliases and transmit all relevant information about the real identity of the subject sought. The Member State that entered the original alert is responsible for adding any aliases. If another Member State discovers an alias, it shall pass the matter on to the Member State that originally entered the alert.