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Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008 on the implementation of Decision 2008/615/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime (revoked)

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. CHAPTER I GENERAL

    1. Article 1.Aim

    2. Article 2.Definitions

  3. CHAPTER 2 COMMON PROVISIONS FOR DATA EXCHANGE

    1. Article 3.Technical specifications

    2. Article 4.Communications network

    3. Article 5.Availability of automated data exchange

    4. Article 6.Reference numbers for DNA data and dactyloscopic data

  4. CHAPTER 3 DNA DATA

    1. Article 7.Principles of DNA data exchange

    2. Article 8.Rules for requests and answers in connection with DNA data

    3. Article 9.Transmission procedure for automated searching of unidentified DNA profiles in accordance with Article 3 of Decision 2008/615/JHA

    4. Article 10.Transmission procedure for automated search of reference DNA profiles in accordance with Article 3 of Decision 2008/615/JHA

    5. Article 11.Transmission procedure for automated comparison of unidentified DNA profiles in accordance with Article 4 of Decision 2008/615/JHA

  5. CHAPTER 4 DACTYLOSCOPIC DATA

    1. Article 12.Principles for the exchange of dactyloscopic data

    2. Article 13.Search capacities for dactyloscopic data

    3. Article 14.Rules for requests and answers in connection with dactyloscopic data

  6. CHAPTER 5 VEHICLE REGISTRATION DATA

    1. Article 15.Principles of automated searching of vehicle registration data

    2. Article 16.Costs

  7. CHAPTER 6 POLICE COOPERATION

    1. Article 17.Joint patrols and other joint operations

  8. CHAPTER 7 FINAL PROVISIONS

    1. Article 18.Annex and Manual

    2. Article 19.Independent data protection authorities

    3. Article 20.Preparation of decisions as referred to in Article 25(2) of Decision 2008/615/JHA

    4. Article 21.Evaluation of the data exchange

    5. Article 22.Relationship with the Implementing Agreement of the Prüm Treaty

    6. Article 23.Implementation

    7. Article 24.Application

  9. Signature

    1. ANNEX

      1. CHAPTER 1: Exchange of DNA-Data

        1. 1. DNA related forensic issues, matching rules and algorithms

          1. 1.1. Properties of DNA-profiles

          2. 1.2. Matching rules

          3. 1.3. Reporting rules

        2. 2. Member State code number table

        3. 3. Functional analysis

          1. 3.1. Availability of the system

          2. 3.2. Second step

        4. 4. DNA interface control document

          1. 4.1. Introduction

            1. 4.1.1. Objectives

            2. 4.1.2. Scope

            3. 4.1.3. XML structure and principles

          2. 4.2. XML structure definition

            1. 4.2.1. Schema PRUEMDNAx

            2. 4.2.2. Content of header structure

              1. 4.2.2.1. PRUEM header

              2. 4.2.2.2. PRUEM_header dir

              3. 4.2.2.3. PRUEM header info

            3. 4.2.3. Content of PRUEM Profile data

              1. 4.2.3.1. PRUEM_datas

              2. 4.2.3.2. PRUEM_request_type

              3. 4.2.3.3. PRUEM_hitquality_type

              4. 4.2.3.4. PRUEM_data_type

              5. 4.2.3.5. PRUEM_data_result

              6. 4.2.3.6. IPSG_DNA_profile

              7. 4.2.3.7. IPSG_DNA_ISSOL

              8. 4.2.3.8. IPSG_DNA_additional_loci

              9. 4.2.3.9. IPSG_DNA_locus

        5. 5. Application, security and communication architecture

          1. 5.1. Overview

          2. 5.2. Upper Level Architecture

          3. 5.3. Security Standards and Data Protection

            1. 5.3.1. Data Level

            2. 5.3.2. Communication Level

            3. 5.3.3. Transmission Level

          4. 5.4. Protocols and Standards to be used for encryption mechanism: s/MIME...

          5. 5.5. Application Architecture

          6. 5.6. Protocols and Standards to be used for application architecture:

            1. 5.6.1. XML

            2. 5.6.2. ODBC

            3. 5.6.3. JDBC

          7. 5.7. Communication Environment

            1. 5.7.1. Common Communication Network: TESTA and its follow-up infrastructure

            2. 5.7.2. Security Concern

            3. 5.7.3. Protocols and Standards to be used over the communication network...

              1. 5.7.3.1. SMTP

              2. 5.7.3.2. POP

            4. 5.7.4. Network Address Assignment

              1. Operative environment

              2. Testing Environment

            5. 5.7.5. Configuration Parameters

      2. CHAPTER 2: Exchange of dactyloscopic data (interface control document)

        1. 1. File Content Overview

          1. 1.1. Type-1 — File header

          2. 1.2. Type-2 — Descriptive text

          3. 1.3. Type-4 — High resolution greyscale image

          4. 1.4. Type-9 — Minutiæ record

          5. 1.5. Type-13 — Variable-Resolution Latent Image Record

          6. 1.6. Variable-Resolution Palmprint Image Record

        2. 2. Record format

          1. 2.1. Information separators

          2. 2.2. Record layout

        3. 3. Type-1 Logical Record: the File Header

          1. 3.1. Fields for Type-1 Logical Record

            1. 3.1.1. Field 1.001: Logical Record Length (LEN)

            2. 3.1.2. Field 1.002: Version Number (VER)

            3. 3.1.3. Field 1.003: File Content (CNT)

            4. 3.1.4. Field 1.004: Type of Transaction (TOT)

            5. 3.1.5. Field 1.005: Date of Transaction (DAT)

            6. 3.1.6. Field 1.006: Priority (PRY)

            7. 3.1.7. Field 1.007: Destination Agency Identifier (DAI)

            8. 3.1.8. Field 1.008: Originating Agency Identifier (ORI)

            9. 3.1.9. Field 1.009: Transaction Control Number (TCN)

            10. 3.1.10. Field 1.010: Transaction Control Response (TCR)

            11. 3.1.11. Field 1.011: Native Scanning Resolution (NSR)

            12. 3.1.12. Field 1.012: Nominal Transmitting Resolution (NTR)

            13. 3.1.13. Field 1.013: Domain name (DOM)

            14. 3.1.14. Field 1.014: Greenwich mean time (GMT)

        4. 4. Type-2 Logical Record: Descriptive Text

          1. 4.1. Fields for Type-2 Logical Record

            1. 4.1.1. Field 2.001: Logical Record Length (LEN)

            2. 4.1.2. Field 2.002: Image Designation Character (IDC)

            3. 4.1.3. Field 2.003: System Information (SYS)

            4. 4.1.4. Field 2.007: Case Number (CNO)

            5. 4.1.5. Field 2.008: Sequence Number (SQN)

            6. 4.1.6. Field 2.009: Latent Identifier (MID)

            7. 4.1.7. Field 2.010: Criminal Reference Number (CRN)

            8. 4.1.8. Field 2.012: Miscellaneous Identification Number (MN1)

            9. 4.1.9. Field 2.013: Miscellaneous Identification Number (MN2)

            10. 4.1.10. Field 2.014: Miscellaneous Identification Number (MN3)

            11. 4.1.11. Field 2.015: Miscellaneous Identification Number (MN4)

            12. 4.1.12. Field 2.063: Additional Information (INF)

            13. 4.1.13. Field 2.064: Respondents List (RLS)

            14. 4.1.14. Field 2.074: Status/Error Message Field (ERM)

            15. 4.1.15. Field 2.320: Expected Number of Candidates (ENC)

        5. 5. Type-4 Logical Record: High Resolution GreyScale Image

          1. 5.1. Fields for Type-4 Logical Record

            1. 5.1.1. Field 4.001: Logical Record Length (LEN)

            2. 5.1.2. Field 4.002: Image Designation Character (IDC)

            3. 5.1.3. Field 4.003: Impression Type (IMP)

            4. 5.1.4. Field 4.004: Finger Position (FGP)

            5. 5.1.5. Field 4.005: Image Scanning Resolution (ISR)

            6. 5.1.6. Field 4.006: Horizontal Line Length (HLL)

            7. 5.1.7. Field 4.007: Vertical Line Length (VLL)

            8. 5.1.8. Field 4.008: Greyscale Compression Algorithm (GCA)

            9. 5.1.9. Field 4.009: The Image

        6. 6. Type-9 Logical Record: Minutiæ Record

          1. 6.1. Minutiæ extraction

            1. 6.1.1. Minutia type identification

            2. 6.1.2. Minutia placement and type

            3. 6.1.3. Coordinate system

            4. 6.1.4. Minutiæ direction

          2. 6.2. Fields for Type-9 Logical record INCITS-378 Format

            1. 6.2.1. Field 9.001: Logical record length (LEN)

            2. 6.2.2. Field 9.002: Image designation character (IDC)

            3. 6.2.3. Field 9.003: Impression type (IMP)

            4. 6.2.4. Field 9.004: Minutiæ format (FMT)

            5. 6.2.5. Field 9.126: CBEFF information

            6. 6.2.6. Field 9.127: Capture equipment identification

            7. 6.2.7. Field 9.128: Horizontal line length (HLL)

            8. 6.2.8. Field 9.129: Vertical line length (VLL)

            9. 6.2.9. Field 9.130: Scale units (SLC)

            10. 6.2.10. Field 9.131: Horizontal pixel scale (HPS)

            11. 6.2.11. Field 9.132: Vertical pixel scale (VPS)

            12. 6.2.12. Field 9.133: Finger view

            13. 6.2.13. Field 9.134: Finger position (FGP)

            14. 6.2.14. Field 9.135: Finger quality

            15. 6.2.15. Field 9.136: number of minutiæ

            16. 6.2.16. Field 9.137: Finger minutiæ data

            17. 6.2.17. Field 9.138: Ridge count information

            18. 6.2.18. Field 9.139: Core information

            19. 6.2.19. Field 9.140: Delta information

        7. 7. Type-13 variable-resolution latent image record

          1. 7.1. Fields for the Type-13 logical record

            1. 7.1.1. Field 13.001: Logical record length (LEN)

            2. 7.1.2. Field 13.002: Image designation character (IDC)

            3. 7.1.3. Field 13.003: Impression type (IMP)

            4. 7.1.4. Field 13.004: Source agency/ORI (SRC)

            5. 7.1.5. Field 13.005: Latent capture date (LCD)

            6. 7.1.6. Field 13.006: Horizontal line length (HLL)

            7. 7.1.7. Field 13.007: Vertical line length (VLL)

            8. 7.1.8. Field 13.008: Scale units (SLC)

            9. 7.1.9. Field 13.009: Horizontal pixel scale (HPS)

            10. 7.1.10. Field 13.010: Vertical pixel scale (VPS)

            11. 7.1.11. Field 13.011: Compression algorithm (CGA)

            12. 7.1.12. Field 13.012: Bits per pixel (BPX)

            13. 7.1.13. Field 13.013: Finger/palm position (FGP)

            14. 7.1.14. Field 13.014-019: Reserved for future definition (RSV)

            15. 7.1.15. Field 13.020: Comment (COM)

            16. 7.1.16. Field 13.021-199: Reserved for future definition (RSV)

            17. 7.1.17. Fields 13.200-998: User-defined fields (UDF)

            18. 7.1.18. Field 13.999: Image data (DAT)

          2. 7.2. End of Type-13 variable-resolution latent image record

        8. 8. Type-15 variable-resolution palmprint image record

          1. 8.1. Fields for the Type-15 logical record

            1. 8.1.1. Field 15.001: Logical record length (LEN)

            2. 8.1.2. Field 15.002: Image designation character (IDC)

            3. 8.1.3. Field 15.003: Impression type (IMP)

            4. 8.1.4. Field 15.004: Source agency/ORI (SRC)

            5. 8.1.5. Field 15.005: Palmprint capture date (PCD)

            6. 8.1.6. Field 15.006: Horizontal line length (HLL)

            7. 8.1.7. Field 15.007: Vertical line length (VLL)

            8. 8.1.8. Field 15.008: Scale units (SLC)

            9. 8.1.9. Field 15.009: Horizontal pixel scale (HPS)

            10. 8.1.10. Field 15.010: Vertical pixel scale (VPS)

            11. 8.1.11. Field 15.011: Compression algorithm (CGA)

            12. 8.1.12. Field 15.012: Bits per pixel (BPX)

            13. 8.1.13. Field 15.013: Palmprint position (PLP)

            14. 8.1.14. Field 15.014-019: Reserved for future definition (RSV)

            15. 8.1.15. Field 15.020: Comment (COM)

            16. 8.1.16. Field 15.021-199: Reserved for future definition (RSV)

            17. 8.1.17. Fields 15.200-998: User-defined fields (UDF)

            18. 8.1.18. Field 15.999: Image data (DAT)

          2. 8.2. End of Type-15 variable-resolution palmprint image record

          3. 8.3. Additional Type-15 variable-resolution palmprint image records

        9. 9. Appendices to Chapter 2 (exchange of dactyloscopic data)

          1. 9.1. Appendix 1 ASCII Separator Codes

          2. 9.2. Appendix 2 Calculation of Alpha-Numeric Check Character

          3. 9.3. Appendix 3 Character Codes

          4. 9.4. Appendix 4 Transaction Summary

          5. 9.5. Appendix 5 Type-1 Record Definitions

          6. 9.6. Appendix 6 Type-2 Record Definitions

          7. 9.7. Appendix 7 Greyscale Compression Codes

          8. 9.8. Appendix 8 Mailspecification

      3. CHAPTER 3: Exchange of vehicle registration data

        1. 1. Common data-set for automated search of vehicle registration data

          1. 1.1. Definitions

          2. 1.2. Vehicle/owner/holder search

            1. 1.2.1. Triggers for the search

            2. 1.2.2. Data set

              1. 1.2.2.1. Items to be returned necessary for the refinement of the...

              2. 1.2.2.2. Complete data set

        2. 2. Data Security

          1. 2.1. Overview

          2. 2.2. Security Features related to message exchange

          3. 2.3. Security features not related to message exchange

            1. 2.3.1. Authentication of users

            2. 2.3.2. User roles

            3. 2.3.3. Logging and tracing of message exchange

              1. Figure: Message types for logging

            4. 2.3.4. Hardware Security Module

        3. 3. Technical conditions of the data exchange

          1. 3.1. General description of the Eucaris application

            1. 3.1.1. Overview

            2. 3.1.2. Scope of the system

          2. 3.2. Functional and Non Functional Requirements

            1. 3.2.1. Generic functionality

            2. 3.2.2. Usability

            3. 3.2.3. Reliability

            4. 3.2.4. Performance

            5. 3.2.5. Security

            6. 3.2.6. Adaptability

            7. 3.2.7. Support and Maintenance

            8. 3.2.8. Design requirements

            9. 3.2.9. Applicable standards

      4. CHAPTER 4: Evaluation

        1. 1. Evaluation procedure according to Article 20 (Preparation of decisions according...

          1. 1.1. Questionnaire

          2. 1.2. Pilot run

          3. 1.3. Evaluation visit

          4. 1.4. Report to the Council

        2. 2. Evaluation procedure according to Article 21

          1. 2.1. Statistics and report

          2. 2.2. Revision

        3. 3. Expert meetings

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