RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry responsible for the allocation of Internet number resources in Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia, has published a transparency report on the information requests it had received from law enforcement agencies in 2015. In total, a number of eight requests were received by the registry: three of them for publicly available information, two for non-public information, and three for information not available to the registry. RIPE NCC explains in its report that it can provide non-public information in its possession only on the basis of a Dutch court order (the organisation being based in Netherlands).