Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 a (new)
Article 17 a Cooperation with Ireland and the United Kingdom 1. The exchange of information and cooperation with Ireland and the United Kingdom on protecting lives of migrants and preventing irregular migration and cross-border crime at the external borders may take place on the basis of bilateral or multilateral agreements between Ireland and the United Kingdom and one or several neighbouring Member States. These agreements may include one or several neighbouring third countries. The national coordination centres of the Member States shall be the contact point for the exchange of information between the communication network referred to in Article 7, any neighbouring third countries specified in an agreement, and Ireland and the United Kingdom. Those agreements shall be notified to the Commission. 2. The agreements referred to in paragraph 1 shall be limited to the following exchange of information between the national coordination centre of a Member State, any neighbouring third countries specified in an agreement, and Ireland and the United Kingdom: (a) information contained in the national situational picture of a Member State to the extent transmitted to the Agency for the purposes of the European situational picture and the Common pre-frontier intelligence picture; (b) information collected by Ireland and the United Kingdom which is relevant for the purposes of the European situational picture and the Common pre-frontier intelligence picture; (c) information as laid down in Article 9(9); (d) information collected by any neighbouring third countries specified in an agreement and which is relevant for the purposes of the European situational picture and the Common pre-frontier intelligence picture. 3. Prior approval of any other Member State, which provided information in the context of EUROSUR and which is not part of any of the agreements referred to in paragraph 1, shall be required before that information can be shared with Ireland and the United Kingdom under that agreement. 4. The agreements referred to in paragraph 1 shall provide that Ireland and the United Kingdom shall bear all of their own financial costs arising from their participation in EUROSUR.