Information on organ and donor characterisation
Article 5
1. Member States shall ensure that, where organs are envisaged for exchange between Member States, prior to exchanging the organ, the competent authority or delegated body of the Member State of origin transmits the information collected to characterise the procured organs and the donor, as specified in Article 7 and in the Annex to Directive 2010/53/EU, to the competent authorities or delegated bodies of the potential Member States of destination. 2. Member States shall ensure that, where some of the information to be transmitted in accordance with paragraph 1 is not available at the time of the initial transmission and becomes available later, it is transmitted in due time to allow for medical decisions: (a) by the competent authority or delegated body of the Member State of origin to the competent authority or delegated body of the Member State of destination; or (b) directly by the procurement organisation to the transplantation centre. 3. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that procurement organisations and transplantation centres transmit to their respective competent authorities or delegated bodies a copy of the information pursuant to this Article.