Use of data for reporting and statistics
Article 17
The competent visa authorities shall have access to consult the following data, solely for the purposes of reporting and statistics without allowing the identification of individual applicants: 1. status information; 2. the competent visa authority, including its location; 3. current nationality of the applicant; 4. border of first entry; 5. date and place of the application or the decision concerning the visa; 6. the type of visa requested or issued; 7. the type of the travel document; 8. the grounds indicated for any decision concerning the visa or visa application; 9. the competent visa authority, including its location, which refused the visa application and the date of the refusal; 10. the cases in which the same applicant applied for a visa from more than one visa authority, indicating these visa authorities, their location and the dates of refusals; 11. purpose of travel; 12. the cases in which the data referred to in Article 9(6) could factually not be provided, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5); 13. the cases in which the data referred to in Article 9(6) was not required to be provided for legal reasons, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5); 14. the cases in which a person who could factually not provide the data referred to in Article 9(6) was refused a visa, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5).