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the following Title shall be inserted: ‘TITLE Va CUSTOMS FILES IDENTIFICATION DATABASE CHAPTER 1 Establishment of a customs files identification database Article 41a 1. The CIS shall also include a specific database called the “Customs files identification database” (FIDE). Subject to the provisions of this Title, all the provisions of this Regulation relating to the CIS shall also apply to the FIDE, and any reference to the CIS shall include that database. 2. The objectives of the FIDE shall be to help to prevent operations in breach of customs legislation and of agricultural legislation applicable to goods entering or leaving the customs territory of the Community and to facilitate and accelerate their detection and prosecution. 3. The purpose of the FIDE shall be to allow the Commission, when it opens a coordination file within the meaning of Article 18 or prepares a Community mission in a third country within the meaning of Article 20, and the competent authorities of a Member State designated as regards administrative enquiries in accordance with Article 29, when they open an investigation file or investigate one or more persons or businesses, to identify the competent authorities of the other Member States or the Commission departments which are or have been investigating the persons or businesses concerned, in order to achieve the objectives specified in paragraph 2 by means of information on the existence of investigation files. 4. If the Member State or the Commission making a search in the FIDE needs fuller information on the registered investigation files on persons or businesses, it shall ask for the assistance of the supplier Member State. 5. The customs authorities of the Member States may use the FIDE within the framework of customs cooperation provided for in Articles 29 and 30 of the Treaty on European Union. In such a case, the Commission shall ensure the technical management of the database. CHAPTER 2 Operation and use of the FIDE Article 41b 1. The competent authorities may enter data from investigation files in the FIDE for the purposes defined in Article 41a(3) concerning cases which are in breach of customs legislation or agricultural legislation applicable to goods entering or leaving the customs territory of the Community and which are of particular relevance at Community level. The data shall cover only the following categories: (a) persons and businesses which are or have been the subject of an administrative enquiry or a criminal investigation by the relevant service of a Member State, and — are suspected of committing or of having committed a breach of customs or agriculture legislation or of participating in or of having participated in an operation in breach of such legislation, — have been the subject of a finding relating to such an operation, or — have been the subject of an administrative decision or an administrative penalty or judicial penalty for such an operation; (b) the field concerned by the investigation file; (c) the name, nationality and details of the relevant service in the Member State and the file number. The data referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) shall be introduced separately for each person or business. The creation of links between those data shall be prohibited. 2. The personal data referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall consist only of the following: (a) for persons: the name, maiden name, forename, former surnames and alias, date and place of birth, nationality and sex; (b) for businesses: the business name, trading name, address of the business, VAT identification number and excise duties identification number. 3. Data shall be entered for a limited period in accordance with Article 41d. Article 41c 1. The introduction and consultation of data in the FIDE shall be reserved exclusively to the authorities referred to in Article 41a. 2. Any consultation of the FIDE must specify the following personal data: (a) for persons: the forename and/or name and/or maiden name and/or former surnames and/or alias and/or date of birth; (b) for businesses: the business name and/or trading name and/or VAT identification number and/or excise duties identification number. CHAPTER 3 Storage of data Article 41d 1. The period for which data may be stored shall depend on the laws, regulations and procedures of the Member State supplying them. The following are the maximum periods, calculated from the date of entry of the data in the investigation file, which may not be exceeded: (a) data concerning current investigation files may not be stored for more than three years without any operation in breach of customs and agricultural legislation being observed; data must be deleted before that time limit if one year has elapsed since the last observation; (b) data concerning administrative enquiries or criminal investigations in which an operation in breach of customs and agricultural legislation has been established but which have not given rise to an administrative decision, a conviction or an order to pay a criminal fine or an administrative penalty may not be stored for more than six years; (c) data concerning administrative enquiries or criminal investigations which have given rise to an administrative decision, a conviction or an order to pay a criminal fine or an administrative penalty may not be stored for more than 10 years. These periods shall not be cumulative. 2. At all stages of an investigation file as referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c), as soon as a person to whom, or a business to which, Article 41b applies is cleared of suspicion under the laws, regulations and procedures of the supplier Member State, data concerning that person or business shall immediately be deleted. 3. The FIDE shall delete the data automatically as soon as the maximum storage period provided for in paragraph 1 has elapsed.’;