1. Without prejudice to Article 8(1) or to the provisions of this Regulation providing for the storage of additional data, SIS shall contain only those categories of data which are supplied by each Member State, as required for the purposes laid down in Articles 24 and 25.
2. Any alert in SIS which includes information on persons shall contain only the following data:
(a)
surnames;
(b)
forenames;
(c)
names at birth;
(d)
previously used names and aliases;
(e)
any specific, objective, physical characteristics not subject to change;
(f)
place of birth;
(g)
date of birth;
(h)
gender;
(i)
any nationalities held;
(j)
whether the person concerned:
(i)
is armed;
(ii)
is violent;
(iii)
has absconded or escaped;
(iv)
poses a risk of suicide;
(v)
poses a threat to public health; or
(vi)
is involved in an activity referred to in Articles 3 to 14 of Directive (EU) 2017/541;
(k)
the reason for the alert;
(l)
the authority which created the alert;
(m)
a reference to the decision giving rise to the alert;
(n)
the action to be taken in the case of a hit;
(o)
links to other alerts pursuant to Article 48;
(p)
whether the person concerned is a family member of a citizen of the Union or other person who is a beneficiary of the right of free movement as referred to in Article 26;
(q)
whether the decision for refusal of entry and stay is based on:
(i)
a previous conviction as referred to in point (a) of Article 24(2);
(ii)
a serious security threat as referred to in point (b) of Article 24(2);
(iii)
circumvention of Union or national law on entry and stay as referred to in point (c) of Article 24(2);
(iv)
an entry ban as referred to in point (b) of Article 24(1); or
(v)
a restrictive measure referred to in Article 25;
(r)
the type of offence;
(s)
the category of the person's identification documents;
(t)
the country of issue of the person's identification documents;
(u)
the number(s) of the person's identification documents;
(v)
the date of issue of the person's identification documents;
(w)
photographs and facial images;
(x)
dactyloscopic data;
(y)
a copy of the identification documents, in colour wherever possible.
3. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to lay down and develop the technical rules necessary for entering, updating, deleting and searching the data referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article and the common standards referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 62(2).
4. Technical rules shall be similar for searches in CS-SIS, in national or shared copies and in technical copies made under Article 41(2). They shall be based on common standards.