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1. Each Member State shall keep logs of queries that the staff of its competent authorities duly authorised to exchange vehicle registration data make and logs of queries requested by other Member States. Europol shall keep logs of queries that its duly authorised staff make. Each Member State and Europol shall keep logs of all data processing operations concerning vehicle registration data. Those logs shall include the following:

(a) whether it was a Member State or Europol that launched the request for a query; where it was a Member State that launched the request for a query, the Member State in question;

(b) the date and time of the request;

(c) the date and time of the reply;

(d) the national databases to which a request for a query was sent;

(e) the national databases that provided a positive reply.

2. The logs referred to in paragraph 1 shall be used only for the collection of statistics, for data protection monitoring, including checking the admissibility of a query and the lawfulness of data processing, and for ensuring data security and integrity. Those logs shall be protected by appropriate measures against unauthorised access and shall be erased three years after their creation. If, however, they are required for monitoring procedures that have already begun, they shall be erased once the monitoring procedures no longer require the logs.

3. For the purposes of data protection monitoring, including checking the admissibility of a query and the lawfulness of data processing, the data controllers shall have access to the logs for self-monitoring as referred to in Article 55.