Transitional provisions
Article 14
1. Information from implementing authorities or bodies shall exclusively concern judgments rendered after 1 January 2009. 2. Warnings registered pursuant to Article 95 of the Financial Regulation before the date of application of this Regulation and still active on that date shall constitute exclusion warnings and shall be directly inserted in the exclusion database. 3. Where a third party concerned was not informed of the registration of an exclusion warning referred to in paragraph 2, the Commission service or the institution that requested the registration shall inform the third party that its data were introduced into the exclusion database within one month from the date of application of this Regulation. 4. The Commission service responsible or other institution that requested registration of an exclusion warning referred to in paragraph 2 remain responsible for requesting modification or removal of that warning in accordance with this Regulation. 5. For exclusions decided by a Commission service or an executive agency pursuant to Article 93(1)(b) and (e) of the Financial Regulation before 1 May 2007, the duration of the exclusion period shall take into account the duration of criminal records under national law. For such exclusion, a maximum duration of four years from the date of notification of the judgment shall apply. If that period has elapsed, the Commission service or the executive agency responsible shall request removal of the warning.