2003/330/EC: Council Decision of 19 December 2002 on declassifying the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)
Date: 2002-12-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Schengen Information System, consultation of information, legal basis

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 19 December 2002

on declassifying the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)

(2003/330/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 207 thereof,

Whereas:

It is appropriate to repeal Article 2 of Decision 2000/
645/EC, so that future decisions on the classification of
the Schengen consultation network (technical specifica-
tions) may be taken in accordance with the normal rules
on the classification of documents, as set out in Council
Decision 2001/264/EC of 19 March 2001 adopting the
Council's security regulations (3),

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Document SCH/II-Vision (99) 5 lays down, inter alia, the
principles pursuant to which the computerised proce-
dure for consultation, for the purposes of issuing visas,
of the central authorities referred to in Article 17(2) of
the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement
of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States
of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of
Germany and the French Republic on the gradual addi-
tion of checks at
their common borders, signed in
Schengen on 19 June 1990, must be applied.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Council Decision 2000/645/EC of 17 October 2000
correcting the Schengen acquis as contained in Schengen
rev. (1)
Executive Committee
confirmed that document SCH/II-Vision (99) 5 consti-
tuted part of the Schengen acquis and Article 2 of that
Decision classified the document as confidential.

SCH/Com-ex(94)

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Document SCH/II-Vision (99) 5 was
subsequently
amended by Council Decisions of 24 April 2001 and of
19 December 2002, in accordance with the provisions
of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 789/2001 of
24 April 2001 reserving to the Council implementing
powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and
practical procedures for examining visa applications (2).

as
‘Schengen

SCH/II-Vision (99) 5,
(hereinafter

subsequently
Document
amended,
consultation
the
network (technical specifications)’), should now be partly
declassified; the remaining parts of the Schengen consul-
tation network (technical specifications) should have
their classification downgraded to ‘Restreint UE’.

The Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)
shall be declassified, with the exception of points 2 and 3 of
part I thereof and Annexes 3, 6, 7 and 9 thereto.

Article 2

Points 2 and 3 of part I of and Annexes 3, 6, 7 and 9 to the
Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) shall
be classified ‘Restreint UE’.

Article 3

1.

Article 2 of Decision 2000/645/EC shall be repealed.

2.
Future decisions on the classification of the Schengen
consultation network (technical specifications) shall be taken in
accordance with the provisions of Decision 2001/264/EC.

(1) OJ L 272, 25.10.2000, p. 24.
(2) OJ L 116, 26.4.2001, p. 2.

(3) OJ L 101, 11.4.2001, p. 1.

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This Decision shall take effect on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 19 December 2002.

For the Council

The President

L. ESPERSEN