S.L. 9.18 ст. 3Setting up of joint investigation teams.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General to authorise the setting up of a joint investigation team to carry out investigations into criminal offences in one or more of the Member States setting up the team in terms of the Convention.

(2) The joint investigation team, the composition of which shall be set out in the agreement setting it up, shall be set up for a specific purpose and a limited period, which may be extended by mutual consent, to carry out criminal investigations in one or more of the Member States setting up the team.

(3) Seconded members of the joint investigation team shall be entitled to be present when investigative measures are taken in the Member State of operation.

(4) Seconded members of the joint investigation team may, in accordance with the law of the Member State where the team operates, be entrusted by the leader of the team with the task of taking certain investigative measures where this has been approved by the competent authorities of the Member State of operation and the seconding Member State.

(5) Where the joint investigation team needs investigative measures to be taken in a Member State setting up the team, members seconded to the team by that Member State may request their own competent authorities to take those measures and those measures shall be considered, in that Member State, under the conditions which would apply if they were requested in a national investigation.

(6) Where the joint investigation team needs assistance from a Member State other than those which have set up the team, or from a third State, the request for assistance may be made by the competent authorities of the State of operations to the competent authorities of the other State concerned in accordance with the relevant instruments or arrangements.

(7) A member of the joint investigation team may, in accordance with his national law and within the limits of his competence, provide the team with information available in the Member State which has seconded him for the purpose of the criminal investigations conducted by the team.

(8) Information lawfully obtained by a member or seconded member while part of a joint investigation team which is not otherwise available to the competent authorities of the Member States concerned may be used for the following purposes:

(a) for the purposes for which the team has been set up;

(b) subject to the prior consent of the Member State where the information became available, for detecting, investigating and prosecuting other criminal offences;

(c) for preventing an immediate and serious threat to public security and, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (b), if subsequently a criminal investigation is opened;

(d) for other purposes to the extent that this is agreed between Member States setting up the team: Provided that the processing of any personal data for the purposes referred to in paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) shall be carried out in accordance with the Data Protection (Processing of Personal Data by Competent Authorities for the Purposes of the Prevention, Investigation, Detection or Prosecution of Criminal Offences or the Execution of Criminal Penalties) Regulations.