If there are reasons to assume that a Member State holds information falling within the scope of Article 695-9-31 useful for the prevention of an offence or for investigations to establish proof thereof or to track down the perpetrators, the services and units referred to in the same Article may request that it be passed on to the competent services of that State.
The request for transmission shall set out the reasons for assuming that the information is held by those services. It shall specify the purposes for which the information is requested and, where the information relates to a specific person, the link between that person and the purposes of the request.