Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008
Concerning the Visa Information System (VIS) and the exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas (VIS Regulation)
- Recitals
CHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Article 1 — Subject matter and scope
- Article 2 — Purpose
- Article 3 — Availability of data for the prevention, detection and investigation of terrorist offences and other serious criminal offences
- Article 4 — Definitions
- Article 5 — Categories of data
- Article 5a — List of recognised travel documents
- Article 6 — Access for entering, amending, deleting and consulting data
- Article 7 — General principles
CHAPTER II — ENTRY AND USE OF DATA BY VISA AUTHORITIES
- Article 8 — Procedures for entering data upon the application
- Article 9 — Data to be entered on application
- Article 9h — Implementation and manual
- Article 9j — Specific risk indicators
- Article 10 — Data to be added for a visa issued
- Article 11 — Data to be added where the examination of the application is discontinued
- Article 12 — Data to be added for a visa refusal
- Article 13 — Data to be added for a visa annulled or revoked
- Article 14 — Data to be added for a visa extended
- Article 15 — Use of the VIS for examining applications
- Article 16 — Use of the VIS for consultation and requests for documents
- Article 17 — Use of data for reporting and statistics
CHAPTER III — ACCESS TO DATA BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
- Article 17a — Interoperability with the EES
- Article 18 — Access to data for verification at borders at which the EES is operated
- Article 18a — Retrieval of VIS data for creating or updating an entry/exit record or a refusal of entry record of a visa holder in the EES
- Article 18b — Interoperability with ETIAS
- Article 18c — Access to VIS data by the ETIAS Central Unit
- Article 18d — Use of the VIS for the manual processing of applications by the ETIAS National Units
- Article 19 — Access to data for verification within the territory of the Member States
- Article 19a — Use of the VIS before creating in the EES the individual files of visa-exempt third-country nationals
- Article 20 — Access to data for identification
- Article 21 — Access to data for determining the responsibility for asylum applications
- Article 22 — Access to data for examining the application for asylum
CHAPTER IIIa — ENTRY AND USE OF DATA ON LONG-STAY VISAS AND RESIDENCE PERMITS
CHAPTER IV — RETENTION AND AMENDMENT OF THE DATA
CHAPTER V — OPERATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Article 26 — Operational management
- Article 27 — Location of the central Visa Information System
- Article 28 — Relation to the national systems
- Article 29 — Responsibility for the use of data
- Article 29a — Specific rules for entering data
- Article 30 — Keeping of VIS data in national files
- Article 31 — Communication of data to third countries or international organisations
- Article 32 — Data security
- Article 33 — Liability
- Article 34 — Keeping of records
- Article 34a — Keeping of logs for the purposes of interoperability with ETIAS
- Article 35 — Self-monitoring
- Article 36 — Penalties
CHAPTER VI — RIGHTS AND SUPERVISION ON DATA PROTECTION
- Article 37 — Right of information
- Article 38 — Right of access, correction and deletion
- Article 39 — Cooperation to ensure the rights on data protection
- Article 40 — Remedies
- Article 41 — Supervision by the National Supervisory Authority
- Article 42 — Supervision by the European Data Protection Supervisor
- Article 43 — Cooperation between National Supervisory Authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor
- Article 44 — Data protection during the transitional period
CHAPTER VII — FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 45 — Implementation by the Commission
- Article 45c — Access to data for verification by carriers
- Article 45d — Fall-back procedures in the case of technical impossibility to access data by carriers
- Article 46 — Integration of the technical functionalities of the Schengen Consultation Network
- Article 47 — Start of transmission
- Article 48 — Start of operations
- Article 48a — Exercise of delegation
- Article 49 — Committee procedure
- Article 50 — Monitoring and evaluation
- Article 51 — Entry into force and application
- Final
- ANNEX — List of international organisations referred to in Article 31(2)
- ANNEX II — Correspondence table