3.

Where a competent authority, a designated body or an entity issuing an external alert pursuant to Article 27(1) or (2) establishes that an alert concerning an infringement that it issued pursuant to Article 26 or 27 has subsequently been shown to be unfounded, it shall withdraw that alert. The Commission shall remove the relevant information from the database without delay, and shall inform the parties of the reasons for that removal. The data relating to an infringement shall be stored in the electronic database for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected and processed, but shall not be stored for longer than 5 years following the day on which: a requested authority notifies the Commission pursuant to Article 12(2) that an intra- Union infringement has ceased; the coordinator notifies the closure of the coordinated action pursuant to Article 22(1); or the information has been entered in the database in all other cases.

← art_35__para_2__text_1 · All articles · art_35__para_3__text_1 →

Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.