EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 29.6.2017 SWD(2017) 242 final COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying the document Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council concerning the exchange through the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) of information extracted from criminal records between the Member States {COM(2017) 341 final}



1. ECRIS exchanges in numbers 1.1. Connected Member States The table hereunder shows the history of the Member States' connection to the ECRIS network. Month Year Live MS # MS 2012 Apr 2012 AT CZ DE DK EE ES FR UK EL IE LT LV NL PL RO 15 May 2012 FI 16 Jun 2012 SK 17 Jul 2012 BE and BG 19 Oct 2012 HU 20 2013 Feb 2013 IT 21 Mar 2013 CY 22 Jul 2013 HR 23 Aug 2013 LU 24 Sep 2013 SE 25 2014 Apr 2014 SI (test only) 25 2016 Feb 2016 MT 26 2017 Jan 2017 SI and PT 28 The graph below illustrates the evolution of the number of interconnections over the five years of ECRIS operation. The total possible number of interconnections is 756 (27*28). *only 8 months of ECRIS activity in 2012 The table below shows the evolution of the number of interconnections for each Member State over the years, with indication of the percentage of all possible interconnections (with 28 Member States live) and of the operational ones (with Member States interconnected at that time). 1.2. Number of notifications, requests and replies per Member State

The graphs below illustrate the volumes of notifications on new convictions sent, the requests for information sent and the replies sent for the interconnected Member States in 2014 and 2015. The table below gives an overview of the most active Member States in terms of volume of notifications on new convictions sent, requests and replies to requests, all together and per each category of messages - in the years 2014-2016. 2014 2015 2016 Most active Member States in terms of total volume of notifications, requests and replies sent DE - 28,7% DE - 25,6% DE - 24,9% IT - 10,9% UK - 14,7% UK - 13,7% UK - 9,7% IT - 9,1% IT - 7,7% FR - 8,3% PL - 7,0% PL - 6,6% PL - 6,8% RO - 5,6% RO - 5,5% Most active Member States in terms of notifications sent on new convictions DE - 30,0% DE - 28,7% DE - 29,7% IT - 20,8% IT - 19,8% IT - 19,0% FR - 11,2% BE - 12,5% BE - 13,6% BE - 8,4% UK - 11,4% UK - 9,9% UK - 7,9% FR - 6,3% ES - 9,0% Most active Member States in terms of issued requests DE - 45,3% DE - 40,0% DE - 38,6% UK - 18,7% UK - 29,4% UK - 26,7% AT - 13,7% AT - 8,2% CZ - 10,1% FR - 7,6% FR - 4,5% AT - 6,9% CZ - 4,1% ES - 4,0% ES - 3,7% Most active Member States in terms of amount of replies sent PL - 20,0% PL - 18,9% PL - 17,4% RO - 13,0% RO - 17,9% RO - 16,2% DE - 9,9% DE - 7,5% SK - 9,1% IT - 8,5% IT - 6,5% DE - 6,2% FR - 5,2% LT - 5,2% IT - 5,1% 1.3. Notifications The graphs below present the volume of notifications issued by the interconnected Member States in 2014 and 2015 sorted by new convictions and updates on previously sent notifications. The table below presents the proportion of sent notifications on new convictions and updates during the whole ECRIS operation period. *only 8 months of ECRIS activity in 2012 1.4. Requests for information

The graphs below compare the volume of requests for information sent by all interconnected Member States in 2014 and 2015 to the volume of received replies to these requests. 1.5. Replies to requests The graphs below illustrate the volume of replies sent by all interconnected Member States in 2014 and 2015 in comparison with the volume of corresponding requests for information received by them. 1.6. Requests for criminal proceedings and other purposes The table below presents the proportion between number of requests for criminal proceedings and number of requests for other purposes than criminal proceedings sent per year during the whole ECRIS operation period. The table below details the volumes of requests per type of purpose for the requests sent for criminal proceedings and for other purposes than criminal proceedings. * The columns marked with A give percentage of certain type of requests out of the requests for the purpose of criminal proceedings. The columns marked with B give percentage of certain type of requests out of all requests issued. The columns marked with C give percentage of certain type of requests out of the requests for other purposes than criminal proceedings. 1.7. Requests concerning EU nationals and TCN The table below represents the proportion of requests concerning EU nationals, Third Country Nationals and Stateless persons respectively per year during the whole ECRIS operation period.