4.

In a case of urgency, where there is a need to prevent an imminent danger to the life of a person associated with a terrorist offence or other serious criminal offence, the central access point shall process the request immediately and shall only verify ex post whether all the conditions referred to in Article 52 are fulfilled, including whether a case of urgency actually existed. The ex post verification shall take place without undue delay and in any event no later than seven working days after the processing of the request. Where an ex post verification reveals that the consultation of or access to data recorded in the ETIAS Central System was not justified, all the authorities that accessed the data shall erase the data they accessed from the ETIAS Central System. The authorities shall inform the relevant central access point of the Member State in which the request was made of the erasure.

← art_51__para_3__text_1 · All articles · art_51__para_4__text_1 →

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