Principles regarding the exchange of information
Article 3
Each Member State shall, in connection with all exchanges of information under this Directive, ensure that: (a) information available can be provided to the Single Point of Contact or the competent law enforcement authorities of other Member States (‘principle of availability’); (b) the conditions for requesting information from and providing information to the Single Points of Contact and the competent law enforcement authorities of other Member States are equivalent to those applicable for requesting and providing similar information within that Member State (‘principle of equivalent access’); (c) it protects information provided to its Single Point of Contact or competent law enforcement authorities that is marked as confidential in accordance with the requirements set out in its national law offering a similar level of confidentiality as the national law of the Member State that provided the information (‘principle of confidentiality’); (d) where the requested information was initially obtained from another Member State or a third country, it only provides such information to another Member State or to Europol with the consent of, and in accordance with the conditions imposed on its use by, the Member State or third country that initially provided the information (‘principle of data ownership’); (e) personal data exchanged under this Directive that are found to be inaccurate, incomplete or no longer up to date are erased or rectified or that their processing is restricted, as appropriate, and that any recipient is notified without delay (‘principle of data reliability’).