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The Visa Information System (VIS) is a large-scale IT system, managed by eu-LISA, which supports the implementation of the European Union’s common visa policy and facilitates border checks and consular cooperation in Europe. The system enables dedicated national authorities to enter and consult data, including biometrics, for short-stay visas for the Schengen Area. The system helps reduce “visa shopping” and

The Entry/Exit System (EES) is a new large-scale IT system being developed by eu-LISA that will enable the recording of entry and exit of third country nationals (TCN) to and from the Schengen Area. The system will replace the current practice of manual stamping of passports with electronic registration in a central database of biographic and biometric information, as well

The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is a new IT system for EU border management being developed by eu-LISA, which will improve the security and safety aspects of travelling to or through the Schengen Area. Once operational, ETIAS will require that all visa-exempt third country nationals planning to travel to the Schengen Area apply for pre-travel authorisation online

The European Criminal Records Information System – Third Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN), to be developed by eu-LISA, will be a centralised hit/no-hit system to supplement the existing EU criminal records database (ECRIS) on non-EU nationals convicted in the European Union. Once operational, it will allow Member States to quickly find out in which other Member State(s) information on previous convictions of

Interoperability is the ability of information systems to exchange data and enable the sharing of information. An efficient management of Europe’s border security and migration relies upon large, centralised information systems including Eurodac, the Schengen Information System (SIS) and the Visa Information System (VIS). eu-LISA is updating these systems and developing new ones - the Entry/Exit System (EES), the European

This factsheet contains the highlights of the SIS II Technical Report 2017-2018 and should be considered as an annex to the report itself.

Report on the technical functioning of of the central SIS II and the its communication infrastructure, including aspects related to security and the bilateral and multilateral exchange of supplementary information between Member States.

This paper introduces the main goals, deliverables and conclusions of the feasibility study ‘Elaboration of a future architectural framework for interoperable IT systems at eu-LISA impact assessment and migration and integration plan’. The aims of the study were to identify and analyse the feasibility of various options for the architectural design and development of future systems by the European Union

Each year, since it assumed the operational management of the system, eu-LISA publishes the list of competent authorities which are authorised to directly search the data contained in SIS II as well as the list of National SIS II offices and the SIRENE Bureaux. All linguistic versions are available in the Official Journal of the European Union (02.07.2019, OJ C