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1. Member States shall regularly collect comprehensive statistics in order for the Commission to monitor the application of this Regulation. The competent authorities of the Member States shall maintain those statistics and shall transmit them to the Commission on an annual basis. The competent authorities of the Member States may process personal data necessary for the production of those statistics.

2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall include:

(a) the number of requests for the transfer of criminal proceedings issued, including the criteria for requesting the transfer, by the requesting State;

(b) the number of accepted and refused transfers of criminal proceedings, including the grounds for refusal, by the requested State;

(c) the length of time taken by the requested State to transmit information on the decision whether to accept or refuse the transfer of criminal proceedings.

3. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall also include, if available at a central level in the Member State concerned:

(a) the number of investigations and prosecutions that were not pursued following the acceptance of a transfer of criminal proceedings;

(b) the number of cases in which legal remedies were sought against decisions to accept the transfer of criminal proceedings, specifying whether each case was brought by a suspect, accused person or victim, and the number of successfully challenged decisions;

(c) as of four years from the date of entry into force of the implementing acts referred to in Article 25(1), the costs incurred under Article 27(2).

4. The reference implementation software referred to in Article 26 and, where equipped to do so, the national back-end systems shall programmatically collect the data referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, and transmit them to the Commission on an annual basis.

5. The statistics referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be transmitted from 1 February 2028.

6. The statistics referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall be collected through the decentralised IT system established in accordance with Article 25, within two years from the date of entry into force of the implementing acts referred to in that Article. For as long as the decentralised IT system is not operational and for that reason the statistics referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article are not collected automatically, those statistics shall only be transmitted if they are available at a central level in the Member State concerned.