1. For law enforcement purposes, Member States shall designate the authorities that are authorised to request comparisons with Eurodac data pursuant to this Regulation. Designated authorities shall be authorities of the Member States which are responsible for the prevention, detection or investigation of terrorist offences or of other serious criminal offences.
2. Each Member State shall keep a list of its designated authorities.
3. Each Member State shall keep a list of the operating units within its designated authorities that are authorised to request comparisons with Eurodac data through the National Access Point.
Correlation table
| Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 | This Regulation |
| Article 5 | Article 5 |