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1. Member States shall ensure that, where their Single Point of Contact or their competent law enforcement authorities send requests for information, provide information pursuant to such requests or provide information on its or their own initiative under Chapter II or III of this Directive, the staff of their Single Point of Contact or competent law enforcement authorities also assess, on a case-by-case basis and subject to Article 7(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/794, whether it is necessary to send a copy of the request for information or of the information provided to Europol, in so far as the information to which the communication relates concerns criminal offences falling within the scope of the objectives of Europol set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2016/794.

2. Member States shall ensure that, where a copy of a request for information or a copy of information is sent to Europol pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article, the purposes of the processing of the information and any possible restrictions to that processing pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2016/794 are duly communicated to Europol. Member States shall ensure that information initially obtained from another Member State or a third country is sent to Europol pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article only where that other Member State or that third country has given its consent.