Statistics
Article 18
1. By 1 March of each year, each Member State shall provide the Commission with statistics on the exchanges of information with other Member States under this Directive which took place during the previous calendar year. 2. Each Member State shall ensure that the statistics referred to in paragraph 1 cover, as a minimum: (a) the number of requests for information submitted by their Single Point of Contact and, where relevant, by their competent law enforcement authorities; (b) the number of requests for information that their Single Point of Contact and their competent law enforcement authorities received and the number of requests for information to which they replied, broken down by urgent and non-urgent requests and by requesting Member State; (c) the number of requests for information refused pursuant to Article 6, broken down by requesting Member State and by ground for refusal; (d) the number of cases in which there was a deviation from the time limits set out in Article 5(1) because it was necessary to obtain a judicial authorisation in accordance with Article 5(2), broken down by the Member States that submitted the requests for information concerned. 3. The Commission shall compile the minimum statistics provided by Member States under paragraph 2 and make them available to the European Parliament and to the Council.