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(1) By 1st March of each year, the International

Relations Unit shall provide the Commission with statistics on the exchanges of information with other Member States which took place during the previous calendar year.

(2) The statistics provided to the Commission shall cover, as a minimum:

(a) the number of requests for information submitted by the International Relations Unit and, where relevant, by competent law enforcement authorities;

(b) the number of requests for information that the International Relations Unit and the competent law enforcement authorities received and the number of requests for AUTHORITIES AND OTHER AUTHORITIES OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION HAVING

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information to which they replied, broken down by urgent and non-urgent requests and by requesting Member State;

(c) the number of requests for information refused pursuant to regulation 9, broken down by requesting Member State and by ground for refusal;

(d) the number of cases in which there was a deviation from the time limits established in regulation 8(1) because it was necessary to obtain a judicial authorisation in accordance with regulation 8(2), broken down by the Member States that submitted the requests for information concerned.

SCHEDULE

Designated Law Enforcement Authorities pursuant to regulation 7(2):

(a) Malta Police Force;

(b) Customs Department within the Malta Tax and Customs Administration.