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Europol shall have the following principal tasks: to collect, store, process, analyse and exchange information and intelligence; to notify the competent authorities of the Member States without delay via the national unit referred to in Article 8 of information concerning them and of any connections identified between criminal offences; to aid investigations in the Member States, in particular by forwarding all relevant information to the national units; to ask the competent authorities of the Member States concerned to initiate, conduct or coordinate investigations and to suggest the setting up of joint investigation teams in specific cases; to provide intelligence and analytical support to Member States in connection with major international events; to prepare threat assessments, strategic analyses and general situation reports relating to its objective, including organised crime threat assessments.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.