In addition, photographs and fingerprints of the person shall be added to the alert when available.
The relevant information including EAW or ER, provided with regard to persons wanted for arrest for surrender or extradition purposes, shall be available to the Sirene Bureau when the alert is entered. A check shall be made to ensure that the information is complete and correctly presented.
Member States shall be able to enter more than one EAW per alert for arrest. It is the responsibility of the issuing Member State to delete an EAW that loses its validity and to check if there are any other EAW attached to the alert and extend the alert if needed.
In addition to an EAW which a Member State has attached to an alert for arrest it shall also be possible to attach translations of the warrants, if necessary in separate binary files.
For scanned documents that are to be attached to alerts, as far as possible, a minimum resolution of 150 DPI shall be used.
3.2.
Multiple alerts
For general procedures see Section 2.2.
In addition, the following rules shall apply:
Several Member States may enter an alert for arrest on the same person. If two or more Member States have issued an alert for the same person, the decision on which warrant shall be executed in the event of an arrest shall be taken by the executing judicial authority in the Member State where the arrest occurs. The Sirene Bureau of the executing Member State shall send a
G form
to each Member State concerned.
3.3.
Misused identity
See general procedure in Section 2.11.1.
3.4.
Entering an alias
See general procedure in Section 2.11.2.
In the case of alerts for arrest, the Sirene Bureau shall use field 011 of the
A form
(27) (at the time of entry of the alert) or subsequently the
M form
, when informing the other Member States of aliases regarding an alert for arrest, if this information is available to the Sirene Bureau.
3.5.
Supplementary information to be sent to Member States
When entering the alert, supplementary information regarding the alert shall be sent to all Member States.
The information referred to in Section 3.5.1 shall be sent to the other Sirene Bureaux by an
A form
, at the same time as entering the alert. Any further information required for identification purposes shall be sent after consultation and/or at the request of another Member State.
In the case where several EAWs or ERs exist for the same person, separate
A forms
shall be completed for each of the EAWs or ERs.
There shall be sufficient detail contained in the EAW/ER and in the
A form
(in particular, EAW Section (e): ‘description of the circumstances in which the offence(s) was (were) committed, including the time and place’, fields 042, 043, 044, 045: ‘description of the circumstances’) for other Sirene Bureaux to verify the alert. Appendix 3 sets out the information required and its relation to the fields on the EAW.
3.5.1.
Supplementary information to be sent with regards to provisional arrest
3.5.1.1.
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