ETIAS National Units
Article 8
1. Each Member State shall designate a competent authority as the ETIAS National Unit. 2. The ETIAS National Units shall be responsible for: (a) examining and deciding on applications for travel authorisation where the automated application process has reported a hit and the manual processing of the application has been initiated by the ETIAS Central Unit; (b) ensuring that the tasks performed under point (a) and the corresponding results are recorded in the application files; (c) ensuring that the data they enter in the application files are up to date in accordance with the relevant provisions of Articles 55 and 64; (d) deciding to issue travel authorisations with limited territorial validity as referred to in Article 44; (e) ensuring coordination with other ETIAS National Units and Europol concerning the consultation requests referred to in Articles 28 and 29; (f) providing applicants with information regarding the procedure to be followed in the event of an appeal under Article 37(3); (g) annulling and revoking a travel authorisation as referred to in Articles 40 and 41. 3. Member States shall provide the ETIAS National Units with adequate resources for them to fulfil their tasks in accordance with the deadlines set out in this Regulation.