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
Date: 2017-06-29
Institutions: Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU police cooperation, European judicial area, criminal record, exchange of information, information system, judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the EU

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   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 

AT CZ DE DK EE ES FR UK EL IE LT LV NL PL 
RO 

FI 

SK 

BE and BG 

HU 

               2013 

IT 

CY 

HR 

LU 

SE 

Apr 

2012 

May 

2012 

Jun 

2012 

Jul 

2012 

Oct 

2012 

Feb 

2013 

Mar 

2013 

Jul 

2013 

Aug 

2013 

Sep 

2013 

               2014 

Apr 

2014 

SI (test only) 

Feb 

2016 

               2016 

MT 

               2017 

Jan 

2017 

SI and PT 

15 

16 

17 

19 

20 

21 

22 

23 

24 

25 

25 

26 

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 

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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). 

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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. 

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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% 
IT - 10,9% 
UK - 9,7% 
FR - 8,3% 
PL - 6,8% 

DE - 25,6% 
UK - 14,7% 
IT - 9,1% 
PL - 7,0% 
RO - 5,6% 

DE - 24,9% 
UK - 13,7% 
IT - 7,7% 
PL - 6,6% 
RO - 5,5% 

Most active Member States in terms of notifications sent on 
new convictions 

DE - 30,0% 
IT - 20,8% 
FR - 11,2% 
BE - 8,4% 
UK - 7,9% 

DE - 28,7% 
IT - 19,8% 
BE - 12,5% 
UK - 11,4% 
FR - 6,3% 

DE - 29,7% 
IT - 19,0% 
BE - 13,6% 
UK - 9,9% 
ES - 9,0% 

Most active Member States in terms of issued requests 

DE - 45,3% 
UK - 18,7% 
AT - 13,7% 
FR - 7,6% 
CZ - 4,1% 

DE - 40,0% 
UK - 29,4% 
AT - 8,2% 
FR - 4,5% 
ES - 4,0% 

DE - 38,6% 
UK - 26,7% 
CZ - 10,1% 
AT - 6,9% 
ES - 3,7% 

Most active Member States in terms of amount of replies sent 

PL - 20,0% 
RO - 13,0% 
DE - 9,9% 
IT - 8,5% 
FR - 5,2% 

PL - 18,9% 
RO - 17,9% 
DE - 7,5% 
IT - 6,5% 
LT - 5,2% 

PL - 17,4% 
RO - 16,2% 
SK - 9,1% 
DE - 6,2% 
IT - 5,1% 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.  

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

1.8. Replies containing conviction information 

The table below shows the proportions of different types of replies sent per year during the 
ECRIS operation period. 

2. Individual Member States statistics 

The tables below present, for each Member State, the number of convictions of nationals 
of  other  Member  States  (EU  non-nationals)  handed  down  on  its  territory  versus  the 
number  of  sent  notifications;  the  number  of  sent  requests;  as  well  as  the  number  of 
received requests versus the number of sent replies in the years 2014- 2016. 

Portugal  and  Slovenia  were  not  connected  to  ECRIS  by  the  end  of  2016,  so  there  are  no 
tables  for  these  two  Member  States.  The  tables  for  Bulgaria,  Cyprus  and  Denmark  do  not 
contain  conviction  data  as  these  Member  States  have  not  provided  the  Commission  with 
such data. For France the statistics for 2016 were not available yet. 

The information on convictions of EU non-nationals is vital for evaluation whether all their 
convictions have been notified to the respective Member States of nationality. 

In many Member States the volume of notifications on new convictions exceeds the volume 
of  convictions  of  nationals  of  other  Member  States.  At  request,  the  concerned  Member 
States informed the Commission about incorrect classification of updates as notifications on 

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new convictions. In some cases, this disproportion was caused by sending a large backlog of 
old notifications in a certain year. The Netherlands sent data including not only convictions 
as  defined  in  the  Framework  Decision  2009/315/JHA,  but  also  other  types  of  decisions  in 
criminal  proceedings registered in  its criminal  records.  The conviction data communicated 
by  these  Member  States  cannot  therefore  serve  for  the  purpose  of  analysis  of  the  relation 
between the convictions and notifications.  

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