Annexes
Annex IIEUROPEAN PRESERVATION ORDER CERTIFICATE (EPOC-PR) FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE
Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) the addressee of this European Preservation Order Certificate (EPOC-PR) must, without undue delay after receiving the EPOC-PR, preserve the data requested. The preservation must cease after 60 days, unless extended by the issuing authority by an additional 30 days, or the issuing authority confirms that a subsequent request for production has been issued. If the issuing authority confirms within those time periods that a subsequent request for production has been issued, the addressee must preserve the data for as long as necessary to produce the data once the subsequent request for production is received. The addressee must take necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality, secrecy and integrity of the EPOC-PR and of the data preserved. |
SECTION A: Issuing/validating authority: Issuing State:… Issuing authority:… Validating authority (where applicable):… NB: details of issuing and validating authority to be provided at the end (Sections F and G) File number of the issuing authority:… File number of the validating authority:… |
SECTION B: Addressee Addressee:…
Address:… Tel. No/Fax No/email (if known):… Contact person (if known):… File number of the addressee (if known):… Service provider concerned (if different from addressee):… Any other relevant information:… |
SECTION C: Information to support identification of the data requested to be preserved (complete to the extent this information is known and necessary to identify the data)
If applicable, the time range of the data for which preservation is requested:…
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SECTION D: Electronic evidence to be preserved This EPOC-PR concerns (tick the relevant box(es)):
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SECTION E: Information on the underlying conditions
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SECTION F: Details of the issuing authority The type of issuing authority (tick the relevant box/boxes):
If validation is necessary, please fill in also Section G. Please note that (tick if applicable):
This emergency case refers to an imminent threat to the life, physical integrity or safety of a person or an imminent threat to a critical infrastructure as defined in Article 2, point (a), of Council Directive 2008/114/EC (4), where the disruption or destruction of such critical infrastructure would result in an imminent threat to the life, physical integrity or safety of a person, including through serious harm to the provision of basic supplies to the population or to the exercise of the core functions of the State. Details of the issuing authority and/or its representative certifying the content of the EPOC-PR as accurate and correct: Name of authority:… Name of its representative:… Post held (title/grade):… File number:… Address:… Tel. No: (country code) (area/city code)… Fax No: (country code) (area/city code)… Email:… Language(s) spoken:… If different from above, authority/contact point (e.g. central authority) which can be contacted for any question related to the execution of the EPOC-PR: Name of authority/name:… Address:… Tel. No: (country code) (area/city code)… Fax No: (country code) (area/city code)… Email:… Signature of the issuing authority or its representative certifying the content of the EPOC-PR as accurate and correct: Date:… Signature (5):… |
SECTION G: Details of the validating authority (complete if applicable) The type of validating authority:
Details of the validating authority or its representative, or both, certifying the contents of the EPOC-PR as accurate and correct: Name of the authority:… Name of its representative:… Post held (title/grade):… File number:… Address:… Tel. No: (country code) (area/city code)… Fax No: (country code) (area/city code)… Email:… Language(s) spoken:… Date:… Signature (6):… |
Corrigendum
Annex II, Section B (‘Addressee’), the third tick-box: text shown as corrected by the corrigendum published in OJ L, 2026/90580, 13.7.2026 (ELI), which reads: for ‘This order is issued in an emergency case to the specified addressee because the designated establishment or the legal representative of a service provider did not react to the EPOC-PR within the deadlines or has not been designated or appointed within the deadlines set out in Directive (EU) 2023/1544 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2)
(2) Directive (EU) 2023/1544 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 laying down harmonised rules on the designation of designated establishments and the appointment of legal representatives for the purpose of gathering electronic evidence in criminal proceedings (OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 181).’ read ‘This order is issued in an emergency case to the specified addressee because the designated establishment or the legal representative of a service provider did not react to the EPOC-PR within the deadlines’.
Annex II, Section F (Details of the issuing authority), the fourth tick-box, the first sentence: text shown as corrected by the corrigendum published in OJ L, 2026/90580, 13.7.2026 (ELI), which reads: for ‘This EPOC-PR was issued for subscriber data, or data requested for the sole purpose of identifying the user in a validly established emergency case without prior validation, because the validation could not have been obtained in time, or both.’ read ‘This EPOC-PR was issued in a validly established emergency case without prior validation, because the validation could not have been obtained in time.’.
Footnotes
- (1) Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 on European Production Orders and European Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal proceedings and for the execution of custodial sentences following criminal proceedings (OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 118).
- (3) For execution of a custodial sentence or detention order, please indicate the offence for which the sentence was imposed.
- (4) Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures (OJ L 345, 23.12.2008, p. 75).
- (5) If the decentralised IT system is not used, please also add an official stamp, electronic seal or equivalent authentication.
- (6) If the decentralised IT system is not used, please also add an official stamp, electronic seal or equivalent authentication.
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Text as at 5 November 2026.
This is an unofficial convenience version of the EU e-Evidence Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1543). It is presented “as is” without guarantee of accuracy, completeness or reliability. See the source text for the official version. This site was last updated in November 2026.