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Border management is currently going through significant transformation. To address the need for the Schengen Area to move towards more modern and efficient border management by using state-of-theart technology, the European Commission proposed the ‘Smart Borders package’ on 28 February 2013. This package contained legal proposals for establishing two systems that should help to speed up, facilitate and reinforce border-check

On 8 October 2015 eu-LISA held a working-level Conference in Tallinn entitled “The future tested Towards a Smart Borders reality”. The conference aimed to convene a diverse group of stakeholders and experts to discuss the evolution of border management in Europe and the technical solutions to be put in place. The various speakers and panellists involved in the conference evoked

Abstract of decision n. 2015-113 of the Management Board of eu-LISA adopting the additional elements to the financing decision for the launch of a restricted procurement procedure for the new framework contract for the Maintenance in Working Order (MWO) of the Visa Information System and of the Biometric Matching System (BMS). This document is to be read and considered in

In accordance to Article 27(2) of Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 eu-LISA has now published the first ever list of Member State competent authorities that have access to Eurodac data for the purposes laid down in Article 1(1) of the above mentioned Regulation. The list specifies the exact unit

This factsheet contains the highlights of the SIS II 2015 Technical Report and should be considered as an annex to the report itself. The content of this factsheet was updated in October 2015

eu-LISA has submitted to the relevant EU institutions the first ever report on the technical functioning of Central SIS II and the Communication Infrastructure, including aspects related to security and the exchange of supplementary information between Member States.The report details the activities implemented since the system's entry into service to ensure the operational management of Central SIS II.An overview of

This factsheet contains the highlights of the Eurodac 2014 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 2014. An overview of the Report is also available Eurodac 2014 Annual Report - Factsheet

Each year, since it assumed the operational management of the system, eu-LISA publishes the list of competent authorities which are authorised to search directly the data contained in SISII 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 (24 June 2015, OJ