THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 78(2), points (c), (d), (e) and (g), Article 79(2), point (c), Article 87(2), point (a), and Article 88(2), point (a), thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee1,
Having regard to the opinions of the Committee of the Regions2,
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure3,
Whereas:
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HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
CHAPTER I — General provisions
Article 1 – Purpose of ‘Eurodac’
Article 3 – System architecture and basic principles
Article 4 – Operational management
Article 5 – Member States’ designated authorities for law enforcement purposes
Article 6 – Member States’ verifying authorities for law enforcement purposes
Article 8 – Interoperability with ETIAS
Article 9 – Conditions for access to Eurodac for the manual processing by ETIAS National Units
Article 10 – Access to Eurodac by the competent visa authorities
Article 11 – Interoperability with VIS
Article 13 – Obligation to take biometric data
Article 14 – Special provisions relating to minors
CHAPTER II — Applicants for international protection
Article 15 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
Article 16 – Information on the status of the data subject
Article 17 – Recording of data
CHAPTER III — Persons registered for the purpose of conducting an admission procedure and persons admitted in accordance with a national resettlement scheme
SECTION 1: Persons registered for the purpose of conducting an admission Procedure under the union resettlement and humanitarian admission framework
Article 18 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
Article 19 – Recording of data
SECTION 2: Persons admitted in accordance with a national resettlement scheme
Article 20 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
Article 21 – Recording of data
CHAPTER IV — Third-country nationals or stateless persons apprehended in connection with the irregular crossing of an external border
Article 22 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
CHAPTER V — Third-country nationals or stateless persons illegally staying in a Member State
Article 23 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
CHAPTER VI — Third-country nationals or stateless persons disembarked following a search and rescue operation
Article 24 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
CHAPTER VII — Information on Relocation
Article 25 – Information on the status of relocation of the data subject
CHAPTER VIII — Beneficiaries of temporary protection
Article 26 – Collection and transmission of biometric data
CHAPTER IX — Procedure for comparison of data for applicants for international protection, third-country nationals and stateless persons apprehended crossing the border irregularly or illegally staying in the territory of a Member State, third-country nationals and stateless persons registered for the purpose of conducting an admission procedure and admitted in accordance with a national resettlement scheme, third-country nationals and stateless persons disembarked following a search and rescue operation and beneficiaries of temporary protection
Article 27 – Comparison of biometric data
Article 28 – Comparison of facial image data
CHAPTER X — Data storage, advanced data erasure and marking of data
Article 30 – Advanced data erasure
CHAPTER XI — Procedure for comparison and data transmission for law enforcement purposes
Article 32 – Procedure for comparison of biometric or alphanumeric data with Eurodac data
Article 33 – Conditions for access to Eurodac by designated authorities
Article 34 – Conditions for access to Eurodac by Europol
CHAPTER XII — Data processing, data protection and liability
Article 36 – Responsibility for data processing
Article 38 – Carrying out comparisons and transmitting results
Article 39 – Communication between Member States and Eurodac
Article 40 – Access to, and rectification or erasure of, data recorded in Eurodac
Article 41 – Keeping of records
Article 42 – Rights of information
Article 44 – Supervision by the national supervisory authorities
Article 45 – Supervision by the European Data Protection Supervisor
Article 47 – Protection of personal data for law enforcement purposes
Article 50 – Transfer of data to third countries for the purpose of return
Article 51 – Logging and documentation
CHAPTER XIII — Amendments to Regulations (EU) 2018/1240 and (EU) 2019/818
Article 53 – Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2018/1240
Article 54 – Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2019/818
CHAPTER XIV — Final provisions
Article 56 – Committee procedure
Article 57 – Reports, monitoring and evaluation
Article 60 – Territorial scope
Article 61 – Notification of designated authorities and verifying authorities
Article 63 – Entry into force and applicability
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.
Done at Brussels, 14 May 2024.
- OJ C 34, 2.2.2017, p. 144 and OJ C 155, 30.4.2021, p. 64. ↩︎
- OJ C 185, 9.6.2017, p. 91 and OJ C 175, 7.5.2021, p. 32. ↩︎
- Position of the European Parliament of 10 April 2024 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 14 May 2024. ↩︎