Processes
Article 37
1. The competent authorities authorised to use the router pursuant to Article 36 or Europol shall request a query by submitting biometric data to the router. The router shall dispatch the request for a query to databases of all or specific Member States and Europol data simultaneously with the data submitted by the user in accordance with his or her access rights. 2. Upon receipt of a request for a query from the router, each requested Member State shall launch a query of their databases in an automated manner and without delay. Upon receipt of a request for a query from the router, Europol shall launch a query of Europol data in an automated manner and without delay. 3. Any matches resulting from queries as referred to in paragraph 2 shall be sent back in an automated manner to the router. The requesting Member State shall be notified in an automated manner where there is no match. 4. The router shall rank, where the requesting Member State so decides and where applicable, the replies by comparing the biometric data used for querying and the biometric data supplied in the replies from the requested Member State or Member States or Europol. 5. The router shall return the list of matching biometric data and their ranking to the router user. 6. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying the technical procedure for the router to query Member States’ databases and Europol data, the format in which the router answers such queries and the technical rules for comparing and ranking the correspondence between biometric data. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 77(2).