Establishment and technical architecture of the ETIAS Information System
Article 6
1. The European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (‘eu-LISA’) shall develop the ETIAS Information System and ensure its technical management. 2. The ETIAS Information System shall be composed of: (a) the ETIAS Central System, including the ETIAS watchlist referred to in Article 34; (b) a national uniform interface (NUI) in each Member State based on common technical specifications and identical for all Member States enabling the ETIAS Central System to connect to the national border infrastructures and to the central access points in Member States referred to in Article 50(2) in a secure manner; (c) a communication infrastructure between the ETIAS Central System and the NUIs which shall be secure and encrypted; (d) a secure communication infrastructure between the ETIAS Central System and the information systems referred to in Article 11; (e) a public website and an app for mobile devices; (f) an email service; (g) a secure account service enabling applicants to provide any additional information or documentation required; (h) a verification tool for applicants; (i) a tool enabling applicants to give or withdraw their consent for an additional retention period of their application file; (j) a tool enabling Europol and Member States to assess the potential impact of entering new data into the ETIAS watchlist on the proportion of applications that are manually processed; (k) a carrier gateway; (l) a secure web service enabling the ETIAS Central System to communicate with the public website, the app for mobile devices, the email service, the secured account service, the carrier gateway, the verification tool for applicants, the consent tool for applicants, the payment intermediary and the Interpol databases; (m) software enabling the ETIAS Central Unit and the ETIAS National Units to process applications and to manage consultations with other ETIAS National Units as referred to in Article 28 and with Europol as referred to in Article 29; (n) a central repository of data for the purposes of reporting and statistics. 3. The ETIAS Central System, the NUIs, the web service, the carrier gateway and the communication infrastructure of ETIAS shall to the extent technically possible share and re-use the hardware and software components of the EES Central System, of the EES National Uniform Interfaces, of the EES web service and of the EES Communication Infrastructure referred to in Regulation (EU) 2017/2226. 4. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 in order to define the requirements of the secure account service referred to in point (g) of paragraph 2 of this Article.