Interoperability with the VIS
Article 8
1. eu-LISA shall establish a Secure Communication Channel between the EES Central System and the VIS Central System to enable interoperability between the EES and the VIS. Direct consultation between the EES and the VIS shall only be possible where provided for by both this Regulation and Regulation (EC) No 767/2008. The retrieval of visa-related data from the VIS, their importation into the EES and the updating of data from the VIS in the EES shall be an automated process once the operation in question is launched by the authority concerned. 2. Interoperability shall enable the border authorities using the EES to consult the VIS from the EES in order to: (a) retrieve the visa-related data directly from the VIS and import them into the EES in order to create or update the entry/exit record or the refusal of entry record of a visa holder in the EES in accordance with Articles 14, 16 and 18 of this Regulation and Article 18a of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008; (b) retrieve the visa-related data directly from the VIS and import them into the EES in order to update the entry/exit record in the event that a visa is annulled, revoked or extended in accordance with Article 19 of this Regulation and Articles 13, 14 and 18a of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008; (c) verify, pursuant to Article 23 of this Regulation and Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, the authenticity and validity of the relevant visa or whether the conditions for entry to the territory of the Member States in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 are fulfilled; (d) verify at the borders at which the EES is operated whether a visa-exempt third-country national has been previously registered in the VIS in accordance with Article 23 of this Regulation and Article 19a of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008; and (e) where the identity of a visa holder is verified using fingerprints, verify at the borders at which the EES is operated the identity of a visa holder by comparing the fingerprints of the visa holder with the fingerprints recorded in the VIS in accordance with Article 23 of this Regulation and Article 18(6) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008. 3. Interoperability shall enable the visa authorities using the VIS to consult the EES from the VIS in order to: (a) examine visa applications and adopt decisions relating to those applications in accordance with Article 24 of this Regulation and Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008; (b) examine, for the Member States which do not yet apply the Schengen acquis in full but operate the EES, applications for national short-stay visas and adopt decisions relating to those applications; (c) update the visa-related data in the entry/exit record in the event that a visa is annulled, revoked or extended in accordance with Article 19 of this Regulation and Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008. 4. For the operation of the EES web service referred to in Article 13, the separate read-only database referred to in Article 13(5) shall be updated on a daily basis by the VIS via a one-way extraction of the minimum necessary subset of VIS data.