1. Without prejudice to Article 39, all communication between the designated authorities, the verifying authorities, the National Access Points and the Europol Access Point shall be secure and take place electronically.
2. For law enforcement purposes, searches with biometric or alphanumeric data shall be digitally processed by the Member States and Europol and transmitted in the data format as set out in the agreed Interface Control Document, in order to ensure that the comparison can be carried out with other data stored in Eurodac.
Correlation table
| Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 | This Regulation |
| Article 22(1) | Article 35(1) |
| Article 22(2) | Article 35(2) |