Processes
Article 44
1. Where a Member State or Europol requests a query, it shall submit the data referred to in Article 43. EPRIS shall dispatch the request for a query to the Member States’ national police record indexes with the data submitted by the requesting Member State or Europol and in accordance with this Regulation. 2. Upon receipt of a request for a query from EPRIS, each requested Member State shall launch a query of their national police record index in an automated manner and without delay. 3. Any matches resulting from queries as referred to in paragraph 1 in each requested Member State’s police records indexes shall be sent back in an automated manner to EPRIS. 4. The list of matches shall be returned to the requesting Member State or Europol by EPRIS in an automated manner. The list of matches shall indicate the quality of the match and the Member State or Member States whose police record indexes contain data that resulted in the match or matches. 5. Upon receipt of the list of matches, the requesting Member State shall decide the matches for which a follow-up is necessary and send a reasoned follow-up request containing the data referred to in Articles 25 and 27 and any additional relevant information to the requested Member State or Member States via SIENA. The requested Member State or Member States shall process such requests without delay in order to decide whether to share the data stored in its or their database. 6. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying the technical procedure for EPRIS to query Member States’ police record indexes and the format and maximum number of replies. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 77(2).