Article 2
1. By 30 June 2021, evaluation visits shall be carried out in Ireland in accordance with the relevant procedures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013, in order to verify whether SIS is functioning properly and whether Decision 2007/533/JHA is being applied correctly. 2. By 31 December 2021, evaluation questionnaires shall be sent to, and evaluation visits shall be carried out in, Ireland in accordance with the relevant procedures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013, in order to verify whether the requirements concerning all relevant legislation and operational activities have been satisfied and the provisions of the Schengen acquis relating to judicial cooperation, drugs cooperation, police cooperation and Article 26 of the Schengen Convention are being applied correctly. 3. The evaluation reports drawn up in accordance with the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 shall take into account the state of preparation for the application or, if applicable, provisional application, by Ireland of the provisions referred to in Article 1(3) of this Decision. 4. The evaluation reports shall be submitted to the Council. Those reports shall conclude whether the conditions for the application of the relevant provisions of the Schengen acquis in the particular area have been met by Ireland. In case an evaluation report concerning one of the areas judicial cooperation, drugs cooperation, police cooperation or Article 26 of the Schengen Convention concludes that the conditions for the application of the relevant provisions of the Schengen acquis in Ireland in that area have not been met by Ireland, that evaluation report shall explicitly state if and how the non-implementation of those conditions affects the proper functioning of SIS. In the light of the findings and the assessments contained in those evaluation reports, Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 shall apply. 5. By way of derogation from Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013, Ireland shall provide the Commission and the Council with an action plan to remedy any deficiencies identified in the evaluation reports within one month of the date of adoption of the recommendations referred to in Article 15 of that Regulation. In case the Commission concludes in its assessment that the action plan provided by Ireland is inadequate or in case the evaluation reports identified any of the deficiencies as seriously affecting the proper functioning of SIS and that deficiency is not remedied by Ireland within a period of six months from the date of adoption of the recommendations referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013, Ireland shall cease to be entitled to have an operational access to SIS until the conditions for the application of those provisions have been met by Ireland. To establish whether Ireland has remedied the identified deficiencies and whether the conditions for application of the relevant provisions of the Schengen acquis have been met, the Commission shall submit to the Council an assessment at the end of the six-month period referred to in the second subparagraph. The Commission shall also transmit that assessment to the European Parliament. In case the assessment concludes that the conditions for the application of the relevant provisions of the Schengen acquis necessary for the proper functioning of SIS have not been met by Ireland, the Council shall, within one month of the date of that assessment, by means of an implementing act: (a) set a date from which point (a) of Article 1(2), Article 1(4) and (5), shall cease to apply; and (b) adopt the transitional measures necessary to ensure the exchange of supplementary information concerning alerts issued in SIS before the date referred to in point (a) of this subparagraph. eu-LISA shall make the necessary arrangements to disconnect Ireland from SIS. The Council shall, as appropriate, examine the situation with a view to adopting a new decision, by means of an implementing act, setting the date for the provisional putting into effect by Ireland of the provisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2) of this Decision. 6. Without prejudice to paragraph 5 of this Article, upon successful completion of the evaluations, the Council shall, by 31 December 2022, in accordance with Article 4(1) of Decision 2002/192/EC read in conjunction with Article 4 of Protocol No 19, examine the situation with a view to adopting an implementing decision setting the date for the final putting into effect by Ireland of the provisions referred to in Article 1(2) and (3) of this Decision. The implementing decision referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall take into account the state of application of the provisions referred to in Article 1(3).