8.5.2008 Official Journal of the European Union L 123/1 I (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 4 March 2008 adopting the SIRENE Manual and other implementing measures for the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) (notified under document number C(2008) 774) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/333[EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, regular updating, are not covered exhaustively by Regula- tion (EC) No 1987/2006. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, (3)  These implementing measures include the SIRENE Manual Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 of the European which contains detailed rules for the exchange of supple- Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on the mentary information. Supplementary information is infor- establishment, operation and use of the second generation Schen- mation not stored in SIS II but connected to SIS II alerts, gen Information System (SIS II) (1), and in particular Articles 8(4), which is to be exchanged: in order to allow Member States 9(1), 20(3), 22(a), 36(4) and 37(7) thereof, to consult or inform each other when entering an alert; fol- lowing a hit in order to allow the appropriate action to be taken; when the required action cannot be taken; when Whereas: dealing with the quality of SIS II data; when dealing with the compatibility and priority of alerts; when dealing with rights of access. (1) Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 shall apply to Member States participating in the SIS 1+ from dates to be fixed by the Council, acting by unanimity of its Members represent- ing the governments of the Member States participating in SIS 1+. These dates shall be fixed after, amongst others, the (4 Other implementipg measures are.p.r(.)tocols and techni.cal necessary implementing measures have been adopted by procedures ensuring the compatibility of N.SIS II with the Commission. CS-SIS; technical rules necessary for entering, updating, deleting and searching data; the specification of the special quality check to ascertain the fulfilment of a minimum data quality standard by photographs and fingerprints entered into the SIS II; technical rules on entering and fur- ther processing additional data for the purpose of dealing with misused identity and technical rules on the linking of (1) OJ L 381, 28.12.2006, p. 4. alerts. (2)  These implementing measures cover SIS II aspects which, due to their technical nature, level of detail and need for