
If an EU law enforcement authority needs information on a wanted person from a database in a different country in the EU, they currently have to transmit data to identify the person (e.g. name, date and place of birth, gender) to see if there even are matching records.
This is problematic for data protection reasons, especially if NO relevant data is found in the queried databases: even the request in connection with the sensitive personal data can, for example, lead to suspicion of the person. Therefore, the process of matching is currently associated with considerable administrative effort.