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1. A Member State, a Union body, a third country or an international organisation that provides information to Europol shall determine the purpose or purposes for which that information is to be processed, in accordance with Article 18. Where a provider of information referred to in the first subparagraph has not complied with that subparagraph, Europol, in agreement with the provider of the information concerned, shall process the information in order to determine the relevance of such information as well as the purpose or purposes for which it is to be further processed. Europol shall process information for a purpose different from that for which information has been provided only if authorised to do so by the provider of the information. Information provided for the purposes referred to in Article 18(2), points (a) to (d), may also be processed by Europol for the purpose of Article 18(2), point (e), in accordance with Article 33a.

2. Member States, Union bodies, third countries and international organisations may indicate, at the moment of providing information to Europol, any restriction on access thereto or the use to be made thereof, in general or specific terms, including as regards its transfer, transmission, erasure or destruction. Where the need for such restrictions becomes apparent after the information has been provided, they shall inform Europol accordingly. Europol shall comply with such restrictions.

3. In duly justified cases Europol may assign restrictions to access or use by Member States, Union bodies, third countries and international organisations of information retrieved from publicly available sources.