3 Amendments of Georgios EPITIDEIOS related to 2016/0357(COD)
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) ETIAS should accept applications introduced on behalf of the applicant for situations where travellers are themselves not in a position to create an application, for whatever reasonreasons unrelated to public health and safety in the countries where the applications are submitted. In such cases, the application shouldmay be carried out by a third person authorised by the traveller or legally responsible for him/her provided this person's identity is included in the application form.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) The personal data recorded in the ETIAS should be kept for no longer than is necessary for its purposes. In order for the ETIAS to function, it is necessary to keep the data related to applicants for the period of validity of the travel authorisation. In order to assess the security, irregular migration and public health risks posed by the applicants it is necessary to keep the personal data for five years from the last entry record of the applicant stored in the EES. After expiry of that period, the data should be destroyed where the applicant is not judged to pose a threat to the security of the Member State in which the application is lodged. In fact, the ETIAS should rely on accurate preliminary assessments of the security, public health and irregular migration risks, notably through the use of the screening rules. In order to constitute a reliable basis for the manual risk assessment by the Member States, and reduce to the minimum the occurrence of hits not corresponding to real risks ('false positives'), the hits resulting from screening rules based on statistics generated by ETIAS data itself need to be representative of a sufficiently broad population. This cannot be achieved exclusively on the basis of the data of the travel authorisations in their validity period. The retention period should start from the last entry record of the applicant stored in the EES, since that constitutes the last actual use of the travel authorisation. A retention period of five years corresponds to the retention period of an EES record with an entry authorisation granted on the basis of an ETIAS travel authorisation or a refusal of entry. This synchronisation of retention periods ensures that both the entry record and the related travel authorisation are kept for the same duration and is an additional element ensuring the future interoperability between ETIAS and EES. This synchronisation of data retention periods is necessary to allow the competent authorities to perform the risk analysis requested by the Schengen Borders Code. A decision to refuse, revoke or annul a travel authorisation could indicate a higher security or irregular migration risk posed by the applicant. Where such a decision has been issued, the 5 years retention period for the related data should start from its date of issuance, in order for ETIAS to be able to take accurately into account the higher risk possibly posed by the applicant concerned. After the expiry of such period, the personal data should be deleted.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 1
Article 56 – paragraph 1
1. The supervisory authority or authorities designated pursuant to Article 51 of [Regulation 2016/679] shall ensure that an annual audit of the data processing operations by the ETIAS National Units is carried out in accordance with relevant international auditing standards at least every four years.