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1. For the investigation of road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) detected on the territory of the Member State of the offence, the Member State of registration shall grant to the national contact points of the Member State of the offence access to the following national VRD, with the power to conduct automated searches thereon:

(a) data relating to vehicles;

(b) data relating to holders and, where available, owners and end users of the vehicles. The data elements referred to in the first subparagraph, points (a) and (b), which are necessary to conduct a search shall be those set out in the Annex.

2. The Member State of the offence shall ensure that only its competent authorities have access to the VRD via its national contact points. When conducting a search in the form of an outgoing request, the competent authority of the Member State of the offence shall use the full registration number of the vehicle.

The competent authority of the Member State of the offence shall ensure that each outgoing request includes the name of the competent authority making the request, the username of the person handling the request and the case number of the request.

3. In order to establish whether a relevant road-safety-related traffic offence has been committed with a vehicle, the competent authority of the Member State of the offence may first request access, via its national contact point, to the technical data relating to vehicles listed in Section 2, Parts I and II, of the Annex, and only to that technical data. Where it is established that a road-safety-related traffic offence has been committed with a vehicle, the competent authority of the Member State of the offence may subsequently request access, via its national contact point, to the personal data relating to the person concerned listed in Section 2, Part I and Parts III to VI, of the Annex.

4. The Member State of the offence shall use the data obtained in the investigation of the road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) in order to establish the identity of the person who is personally liable for those road-safety-related traffic offences as defined in the law of the Member State of the offence.

5. The national contact point of the Member State of registration shall ensure that, when accessing VRD, the competent authorities of the Member State of the offence receive a specific message informing them, in at least the following cases, that:

(a) at the time of the offence, the vehicle was recorded as destroyed;

(b) at the time of the offence, the vehicle was recorded as stolen in any national register;

(c) at the time of the offence, the vehicle registration plate was recorded as stolen in any national register;

(d) at the time of the offence, no information of the vehicle can be found in any national register;

(e) the search input has been detected as not correct, based on some national syntax requirements;

(f) the requested information cannot be disclosed if it would reveal the identity of a person protected in accordance with the law of the Member State of registration.

6. The national contact point of the Member State of registration shall ensure that only the personal data elements related to the road-safety-related traffic offence committed are shared.

7. For mutual assistance in accordance with Article 5c, 5e or 5f, the competent authorities of the Member States shall ensure that every request for mutual assistance includes the name of the competent authority making the request, the username of the person handling the request and the case number of the request.