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The reasoned request shall contain evidence that all the following conditions are met: the consultation is necessary to support and strengthen action by Member States in preventing, detecting or investigating terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences falling under Europol’s mandate; the consultation is necessary and proportionate in a specific case; the consultation shall be limited to searching with data referred to in Article 52(2) in combination with the data listed under Article 52(3) where necessary; evidence or reasonable grounds exist to consider that the consultation will contribute to the prevention, detection or investigation of any of the criminal offences in question, in particular where there is a substantiated suspicion that the suspect, perpetrator or victim of a terrorist offence or other serious criminal offence falls under a category of traveller covered by this Regulation.

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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.