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While respecting the provisions of national law on the publication of sensitive information, each Member State and Europol shall prepare annual reports on the effectiveness of access to EES data for law enforcement purposes containing information and statistics on: whether the consultation was carried out for the purpose of identification or for entry/exit records, and the type of terrorist offence or serious criminal offence that led to the consultation; the grounds given to substantiate the suspicion that the person concerned was covered by this Regulation; the grounds given not to launch the consultation of other Member States’ automated fingerprint identification systems under Decision 2008/615/JHA in accordance with point (b) of Article 32(2) of this Regulation; the number of requests for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes; the number and type of cases in which access to the EES for law enforcement purposes led to successful identifications; the number and type of cases in which the urgency procedures referred to in Article 31(2) and in the second subparagraph of Article 32(2) were used, including those cases where that urgency was not accepted by the ex post verification carried out by the central access point. A technical solution shall be made available to Member States in order to facilitate the collection of the data listed in the first subparagraph of this paragraph for the purpose of generating statistics referred to in this paragraph. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts concerning the specifications of the technical solution. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 68(2). Member States’ and Europol’s annual reports shall be transmitted to the Commission by 30 June of the subsequent year.

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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.