Objectives
Article 2
1. By ensuring interoperability, this Regulation has the following objectives: (a) to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of border checks at external borders; (b) to contribute to the prevention and the combating of illegal immigration; (c) to contribute to a high level of security within the area of freedom, security and justice of the Union including the maintenance of public security and public policy and safeguarding security in the territories of the Member States; (d) to improve the implementation of the common visa policy; (e) to assist in the examination of applications for international protection; (f) to contribute to the prevention, detection and investigation of terrorist offences and of other serious criminal offences; (g) to facilitate the identification of unknown persons who are unable to identify themselves or unidentified human remains in case of a natural disaster, accident or terrorist attack. 2. The objectives referred to in paragraph 1 shall be achieved by: (a) ensuring the correct identification of persons; (b) contributing to combating identity fraud; (c) improving data quality and harmonising the quality requirements for the data stored in the EU information systems while respecting the data processing requirements of the legal instruments governing the individual systems, data protection standards and principles; (d) facilitating and supporting technical and operational implementation by Member States of EU information systems; (e) strengthening, simplifying and making more uniform the data security and data protection conditions that govern the respective EU information systems, without affecting the special protection and safeguards afforded to certain categories of data; (f) streamlining the conditions for designated authorities' access to the EES, VIS, ETIAS and Eurodac, while ensuring necessary and proportionate conditions for that access; (g) supporting the purposes of the EES, VIS, ETIAS, Eurodac, SIS and ECRIS-TCN.