Responsibilities of Member States
Article 76
1. Each Member State shall be responsible for: (a) the connection to the NUI; (b) the organisation, management, operation and maintenance of the ETIAS National Units for the manual processing of applications for travel authorisation where the automated processing has reported a hit, as referred to in Article 26; (c) the organisation of central access points and their connection to the NUI for the purposes of preventing, detecting and investigating terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences; (d) the management and arrangements for access of duly authorised staff of the competent national authorities to the ETIAS Information System in accordance with this Regulation and to establish and regularly update a list of such staff and their profiles; (e) the set up and operation of the ETIAS National Units; (f) entering data into the ETIAS watchlist related to terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences pursuant to Article 34(2) and (3); and (g) ensuring that each of its authorities entitled to access the ETIAS Information System takes the measures necessary to comply with this Regulation, including those necessary to ensure the respect of fundamental rights and data security. 2. Each Member State shall use automated processes for querying the ETIAS Central System at the external borders. 3. Before being authorised to process data recorded in the ETIAS Central System, the staff of the ETIAS National Units having a right to access the ETIAS Information System shall be given appropriate training on data security and on fundamental rights, in particular data protection. They shall also take part in trainings offered by eu-LISA on the technical use of the ETIAS Information System and on data quality.