Article 37

For the purposes of discreet checks or specific checks, all or some of the following information shall be collected and communicated to the authority issuing the alert when border control or other police and customs checks are carried out within a Member State: the fact that the person for whom, or the vehicle, boat, aircraft or container, for which an alert has been issued, has been located; the place, time or reason for the check; the route and destination of the journey; the persons accompanying the persons concerned or the occupants of the vehicle, boat or aircraft who can reasonably be expected to be associated to the persons concerned; the vehicle, boat, aircraft or container used; objects carried; the circumstances under which the person or the vehicle, boat, aircraft or container was located. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be communicated through the exchange of supplementary information. For the collection of the information referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall take the necessary steps not to jeopardise the discreet nature of the check. During specific checks, persons, vehicles, boats, aircraft, containers and objects carried, may be searched in accordance with national law for the purposes referred to in Article 36. If specific checks are not authorised under the law of a Member State, they shall automatically be replaced, in that Member State, by discreet checks.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.