Publications

The 2018 conference was exceptional amongst eu-LISA’s conference series, as it was co-organised with Frontex and received support from the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The future of technology led border management proved to be a relevant and timely topic of debate for the panellists and audience ranging from border guard community to academia. This conference was

Main theme: Technologies to Facilitate Land Border Crossing. The event was dedicated to highlighting technical needs in terms of how land border crossings at the EU’s external borders could be facilitated after the entry into operation of the Entry/Exit System (EES) and intended to allow consideration of possible innovative solutions. eu-LISA highlighted from the outset that solutions from the industry

This factsheet contains the highlights of the Eurodac 2017 Annual Report and should be considered as an annex to the report itself.

This report includes information on the management and the performance of Eurodac in 2017. An overview of the Report is also available in the Eurodac 2017 Annual Report - Factsheet.

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

Report on the technical functioning of Visa Information System, including aspects related to the Biometric Matching System. This report details the activities implemented over the last two years to ensure the operational management of VIS.

On the 16 th of May 2018, eu-LISA hosted its 8 th Industry Roundtable event at the European Commission representation in Sofia, Bulgaria, with the kind support of the Bulgarian Presidency. The event, titled ‘EU External Borders – streamlining of information exchange’ gathered 74 representatives representing 39 different commercial entities, the European Commission, 4 EU Member States and 3 EU

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 on the Official Journal of the European Union (28.06.2018, OJ C

eu-LISA continued to deliver on its current mandate stable, effective and efficient operational management and evolution of the three systems currently entrusted to the Agency — Eurodac, the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS). In 2017, the continuous and uninterrupted management of the systems and their associated communication networks and the supervision and the security