Responsibilities and tasks regarding the ETIAS watchlist
Article 35
1. Before Europol or a Member State enters data into the ETIAS watchlist, it shall: (a) determine whether the information is adequate, accurate and important enough to be included in the ETIAS watchlist; (b) assess the potential impact of the data on the proportion of applications manually processed; (c) verify whether the data correspond to an alert entered in SIS. 2. eu-LISA shall create a specific tool for the purpose of assessment under point (b) of paragraph 1. 3. Where verification under point (c) of paragraph 1 reveals that the data correspond to an alert entered in SIS, it shall not be entered into the ETIAS watchlist. Where the conditions for using the data to enter an alert in SIS are fulfilled, priority shall be given to entering an alert in SIS. 4. Member States and Europol shall be responsible for the accuracy of the data referred to in Article 34(2) that they enter into the ETIAS watchlist and for keeping them up to date. 5. Europol shall review and verify the continued accuracy of the data it has entered into the ETIAS watchlist regularly, and at least once a year. Member States shall likewise review and verify the continued accuracy of the data they have entered into the ETIAS watchlist regularly and at least once a year. Europol and Member States shall develop and implement a joint procedure to ensure fulfilment of their responsibilities under this paragraph. 6. Following a review, Member States and Europol shall withdraw data from the ETIAS watchlist if it is proven that the reasons for which they were entered no longer hold, or that the data are obsolete or not up to date. 7. The ETIAS watchlist and the assessment tool referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall be developed technically and hosted by eu-LISA. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish the technical specifications of the ETIAS watchlist and of that assessment tool. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(2).