In order to facilitate the collection of the data needed to generate the statistics that Member States and Europol have to produce pursuant to Article 72(8) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, a technical solution shall be made available by eu-LISA to the central access point(s) referred to Article 29(3) and Article 30(2) of that Regulation. The use of this solution shall be optional. If used, each Member State and Europol shall be responsible for the national deployment as well as for the technical and operational management of this solution. This solution shall allow the collection of the following statistical data for each request for access to the EES:
(a)
designated authority, central access point and operating unit initiating the request referred to in Article 29(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226;
(b)
flag informing if the request led to a successful match;
(c)
flag mentioning if the consultation was carried out for the purpose of identification or for entry/exit records;
(d)
flag informing if the consultation was carried out using the urgency procedures referred to in Article 31(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 and in the second subparagraph of Article 32(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 and flag informing if the urgency was not accepted by the ex post verification carried out by the central access point;
(e)
the type of terrorist offence or serious criminal offence as defined in points (24) and (25) of Article 3(1) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 that led to the consultation;
(f)
the grounds given to substantiate the suspicion that the person concerned was covered by Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 by selecting a value from a code table with the possibility to select ‘other’ value complemented by a free text field;
(g)
the grounds given not to launch the search in other Member States' automated fingerprint identification systems under Decision 2008/615/JHA in accordance with point (b) of Article 32(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 by selecting a value from a code table with the possibility to select ‘other’ value complemented by a free text field.
This information shall be stored at local level, by the central access point(s) to support the generation of statistics referred to in Article 72(8) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226.
The data inserted in the technical solution shall be used by each Member State or by Europol to generate its statistics referred to in Article 72(8) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226.
