Data-quality compliance mechanism and procedures
Article 3
1. The automated mechanism established for ensuring data quality compliance shall apply to the entry or amendment of data when creating or updating application files in VIS by the competent authorities pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008. 2. For enhanced data quality compliance, eu-LISA shall set up a mechanism to avoid: (a) syntax errors by allowing only correctly formatted data fields to be entered, or stored; (b) semantic errors by, where possible, limiting the use of free text fields. 3. The data-quality compliance mechanism shall allow the application of blocking rules. When blocking rules do not apply, soft rules shall be applied to data entered or amended by the competent authorities pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, in accordance with Articles 6, 8, 9, 9c, 9d, 9e, 9g, 10, 12, 13, 14, 22a, 22c, 22d, 22e, 22f, 24, 25 of that Regulation. 4. In order to determine data quality compliance with the blocking or soft rules, the data quality compliance mechanism referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article shall comply with points 1 and 2 of the Annex. 5. The data-quality compliance mechanism shall assess the extent to which the data complies with each data quality indicator by applying the data quality standard of each indicator. As a result of that assessment, the data-quality compliance mechanism shall assign to the input data a data quality classification pursuant to the process laid down in point 3 of the Annex. 6. eu-LISA shall implement the data quality standards for each indicator in accordance with the Annex.