Article 1
Open ↗Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) are hereby amended as set out in the Annexes I, II and III.
Source
2011/369/EU: Council Decision of 9 June 2011 amending the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)
2011/369/EU: Council Decision of 9 June 2011 amending the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)
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Article 2
Open ↗This Decision shall enter into force on 9 June 2011. It shall apply from 10 July 2011.
Article 3
Open ↗This Decision is addressed to the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.
Supplementary provisions
ANNEX ISupplementary provisions
Open ↗ANNEX I Point 1.3 of Part 1 of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) is replaced by the following: ‘1.3. DEFINING MESSAGE CHARACTERISTICS For every message to be sent via the network, the following structural characteristics should be met: The ‘From’ item of the message contains the senders applications address. For example: From: vision@vision-mailer.nl The ‘To’ item of the message contains the recipients application address. For example: To: vision@vision-mailer.de Implementation tip: be aware that it is possible to make use of multiple recipients delimited by commas. But if the application does so, on received FORMs R it has to determine the FORM R sender, because it will receive references to identical message-identifiers (heading ‘000’). Sending separate messages to each partner State with different ‘000’ headings is less confusing. The ‘Subject’ item of the message contains a ‘file number’ and a full stop (‘.’) followed by the form-type identifier (Letter: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘E’, ‘F’, ‘G’, ‘H’ or ‘R’). For the respective forms, the ‘file number’ equals the content of its heading: ‘001’ in FORM ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘F’, ‘G’, ‘H’ and the content of heading ‘048’ in a FORM E. For heading definitions see 2.1.2. Examples: Subject:AUT0000010106AJKT00.B Subject:FRA2007022457471104.E If a Member State receives a message with an incorrectly formulated subject, it has to discard that message without processing it. If the problem persists it has to be solved bilaterally by the technical staff. The mail body has to be structured as follows: — ‘text/plain’ is used as the ‘Media Type’ or ‘Mime Type’ see RFC2046 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046), — ‘ISO-8859-15’ is used as the ‘charset’. Hence in the ‘Header’ of every mail, the following line will appear: Content-Type: text/plain; charset = ISO-8859-15.’.
ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
Open ↗ANNEX II Point 2.2.1 of Part 2 of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) is replaced by the following: ‘2.2.1. Three-letter codes (ICAO) Codes for States, entities, territories, nationalities and organisations as well as further designations for the VISION consultation procedure. Three-letter codes, as set out in ICAO Document 9303 on Machine-Readable Travel Documents, shall be used except in the following cases: 1. for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, XXG shall be used; 2. for Kosovo ( 1 ) , XXD shall be used; 3. for the Federal Republic of Germany, DEU shall be used. Two lists will be made available on CIRCA: 1. An ICAO-based code list ( 2 ) : the latest version of the ICAO-based codes with the three exceptions mentioned above to be used for VISION consultation. This list shall be used in line with the list established by Regulation (EC) No 539/2001. 2. A special VISION code list : the limited list of special VISION three-letter codes for specific cases. Both lists will contain, next to the appropriate three-letter codes to be used for VISION consultation ‘valid from’ and ‘valid until’-values for these codes: — Valid-Until : Date from which the code becomes obsolete for VISION consultation, — Valid-From : Date from which the code becomes applicable to be used for VISION consultation. If ICAO-updates are detected by a Member State or the Commission, it will immediately notify the General Secretariat of the Council. The ICAO-based code list will be updated by the Presidency as follows: — new ICAO-codes shall be added with a ‘valid from’ date 30 days after publication of the updated list on CIRCA, — for removed ICAO-codes the ‘valid until’ date shall be set 30 days after publication of the updated list on CIRCA and shall be kept for archival purposes. If, for technical reasons (e.g. old passports that are still valid), an expired ICAO-code has to be used further in the VISION Consultation Network, or in general if, for technical reasons, a new three-letter code is deemed necessary, this code shall be added to the special VISION code list after agreement in the Visa/VISION Working Party. The General Secretariat of the Council shall notify Member States every time an updated list has been published on CIRCA. ( 1 ) Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999). ( 2 ) A table containing the current ICAO-codes can be found at the ICAO web site.’.
ANNEX IIISupplementary provisions
Open ↗ANNEX III The last paragraph of point 3.2.5 of Part 3 of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) is deleted.
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