Technical specifications for the exchange of VRD and mutual assistance
Article 5g
1. Member States shall use a specifically designed and highly secured software application of the European Vehicle and Driving Licence Information System (EUCARIS) in its up-to-date version to exchange the information or process the mutual assistance, in accordance with Article 3a(1). Member States shall ensure that the processing of data is secure, cost-efficient, expeditious and reliable, and carried out by interoperable means within a decentralised structure. 2. Information exchanged via EUCARIS shall be transmitted in encrypted form. 3. By 20 January 2026, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts to establish the procedures, content and technical software specifications, including cybersecurity measures for the electronically structured requests and responses related to Article 3a(1), point (a), and the means of transmission of the information for the processing of mutual assistance, including the use of uniform templates, and procedures as set out in Articles 4, 5c, 5e and 5f. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 10a(2). 4. When establishing the implementing acts, the Commission shall take into account the following considerations: (a) the competent authorities are to have the possibility to identify direct and indirect access when the request does not come from a known member of the electronic communication platform; (b) the competent authorities are to have the possibility to consult the requests in order to guarantee that they are duly justified and comply with the requirements of this Directive; (c) the need to establish processes to enable Member States to take appropriate measures in response to automatic alerts and to abnormal requests, in order to mitigate the risks for the data, as well as to organise the cooperation between Member States on risk monitoring, management and mitigation, in particular for not sending data in response to abnormal requests as a derogation to Article 4(1); (d) the Member State of registration is to have the possibility to request the details of the road-safety-related traffic offence prior to the transmission of the registration data to the Member State of the offence, and to refuse the transmission of the registration data if the Member State of the offence does not reply to that request within one month; (e) the need for a journal of consultations leading to automatic alerts to the members in the case of abnormal requests; (f) where the competent authorities are to have the possibility to exchange data in synchronous single mode and where they are to have the possibility to exchange data in asynchronous batch mode. 5. Until the implementing acts referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article become applicable, the automated searches referred to in Article 4(1) of this Directive shall be conducted in compliance with the procedures described in Chapter 3, points 2 and 3, of the Annex to Council Decision 2008/616/JHA ( 16 ), applied jointly with the Annex to this Directive. 6. Each Member State shall bear its own costs arising from the administration, use, maintenance and updates of the EUCARIS and its amended versions.