1. Member States and Europol shall ensure that all data processing operations resulting from requests for comparison with Eurodac data for law enforcement purposes are logged or documented for the purpose of checking the admissibility of the request and monitoring the lawfulness of the data processing and data integrity and security and for the purposes of self-monitoring.
2. The log or documentation shall show in all cases:
(a) the exact purpose of the request for comparison, including the type of terrorist offence or other serious criminal offence concerned and, for Europol, the exact purpose of the request for comparison;
(b) the reasonable grounds given in accordance with Article 33(1), point (a), of this Regulation for not conducting comparisons with other Member States under Decision 2008/615/JHA;
(c) the national file number;
(d) the date and exact time of the request for comparison by the National Access Point to Eurodac;
(e) the name of the authority that requested access for comparison and the person responsible who made the request and processed the data;
(f) where applicable, the use of the urgent procedure referred to in Article 32(4) and the decision taken with regard to the ex post verification;
(g) the data used for comparison;
(h) in accordance with national rules or with , the identifying mark of the official who carried out the search and of the official who ordered the search or supply;
(i) where applicable, a reference to the use of the European search portal to query Eurodac as referred to in Article 7(2) of .
3. Logs and documentation shall be used only for monitoring the lawfulness of data processing and for ensuring data integrity and security. Logs which contain personal data shall not be used for the monitoring and evaluation referred to in Article 57.
The national supervisory authorities responsible for checking the admissibility of the request and monitoring the lawfulness of the data processing and data integrity and security shall have access to those logs at their request for the purpose of fulfilling their tasks.
Correlation table
| Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 | This Regulation |
| Article 36(1) | Article 51(1) |
| Article 36(2), introductory wording and points (a) to (h) | Article 51(2), introductory wording and points (a) to (h) |
| — | Article 51(2), point (i) |
| Article 36 (3) | Article 51(3) |