Availability of the automated exchange of data at national level
Article 32
1. Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that automated searching of DNA profiles, dactyloscopic data, certain vehicle registration data, facial images and police records is possible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 2. National contact points shall immediately inform each other, the Commission, eu-LISA and Europol of any unavailability of the automated exchange of data, including, where applicable, of any technical faults causing that unavailability. National contact points shall agree, in accordance with the applicable Union and national law, on temporary alternative information exchange arrangements to be used where the automated exchange of data is unavailable. 3. Where the automated exchange of data is unavailable, national contact points shall ensure that it is re-established by any means necessary and without delay.