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Definitions For the purpose of this Directive:

(1) ‘competent law enforcement authority’ means any police, customs or other authority of the Member States competent under national law to exercise authority and to take coercive measures for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences or any authority that takes part in joint entities set up between two or more Member States for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences, but excludes agencies or units dealing especially with national security issues and liaison officers seconded pursuant to Article 47 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement;

(2) ‘designated law enforcement authority’ means a competent law enforcement authority that is authorised to submit requests for information to the Single Points of Contact of other Member States in accordance with Article 4(1);

(3) ‘serious criminal offence’ means any of the following:

(a) an offence as referred to in Article 2(2) of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA ;

(b) an offence as referred to in Article 3(1) or (2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/794;

(4) ‘information’ means any content concerning one or more natural or legal persons, facts or circumstances relevant to competent law enforcement authorities for the purpose of carrying out their tasks under national law of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences, including criminal intelligence;

(5) ‘information available’ means directly accessible information and indirectly accessible information;

(6) ‘directly accessible information’ means information held in a database that can be directly accessed by the Single Point of Contact or a competent law enforcement authority of the Member State from which information is requested;

(7) ‘indirectly accessible information’ means information that a Single Point of Contact or a competent law enforcement authority of the Member State from which information is requested can obtain from other public authorities or from private parties established in that Member State, where permitted by and in accordance with national law, without coercive measures;

(8) ‘personal data’ means personal data as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2016/680.