1. Each Member State shall designate a specialised service within its police services or other law enforcement authorities, which, in accordance with national law, will have access to and collect all relevant information concerning and resulting from criminal investigations conducted by its law enforcement authorities with respect to terrorist offences and send it to Europol in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4.
2. Each Member State shall designate one, or where its legal system so provides more than one authority, as Eurojust national correspondent for terrorism matters or an appropriate judicial or other competent authority which, in accordance with national law, shall have access to and can collect all relevant information concerning prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences and send it to Eurojust in accordance with paragraph 5.
3. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that at least the information referred to in paragraph 4 concerning criminal investigations and the information referred to in paragraph 5 concerning prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences which affect or may affect two or more Member States, gathered by the relevant authority, is transmitted to:
(a)
Europol, in accordance with national law and with the provisions of the Europol Convention, for processing; and
(b)
Eurojust, in accordance with national law and where the provisions of the Eurojust Decision so allow.
4. The information to be transmitted in accordance with paragraph 3 to Europol shall be the following:
(a)
data which identify the person, group or entity;
(b)
acts under investigation and their specific circumstances;
(c)
the offence concerned;
(d)
links with other relevant cases;
(e)
the use of communication technologies;
(f)
the threat posed by the possession of weapons of mass destruction.
5. The information to be transmitted in accordance with paragraph 3 to Eurojust shall be the following:
(a)
data which identify the person, group or entity that is the object of a criminal investigation or prosecution;
(b)
the offence concerned and its specific circumstances;
(c)
information about final convictions for terrorist offences and the specific circumstances surrounding those offences;
(d)
links with other relevant cases;
(e)
requests for judicial assistance, including letters rogatory, addressed to or by another Member State and the response.
6. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that any relevant information included in documents, files, items of information, objects or other means of evidence, seized or confiscated in the course of criminal investigations or criminal proceedings in connection with terrorist offences can be made accessible as soon as possible, taking account of the need not to jeopardise current investigations, to the authorities of other interested Member States in accordance with national law and relevant international legal instruments where investigations are being carried out or might be initiated or where prosecutions are in progress in connection with terrorist offences.
