API-PNR Advisory Group
Article 29
1. As from 28 January 2025, the API-PNR Advisory Group, established pursuant to Article 27(1), point (de), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1726, shall provide eu-LISA’s Management Board with the necessary expertise related to API-PNR in particular in the context of the preparation of its annual work programme and its annual activity report. 2. Whenever available, eu-LISA shall provide the API-PNR Advisory Group with versions, even intermediary ones, of the technical specifications and the compliance test sets referred to in Article 25(1), (2) and (4). 3. The API-PNR Advisory Group shall exercise the following functions: (a) provide expertise to eu-LISA and to the Programme Management Board on the design and development of the router in accordance with Article 25; (b) provide expertise to eu-LISA on the hosting and technical management of the router in accordance with Article 26; (c) provide its opinion to the Programme Management Board, upon its request, on the progress of the design and development of the router, including on the progress of the technical specifications and compliance test sets referred to in paragraph 2. 4. The API-PNR Advisory Group shall have no decision-making power, nor any mandate to represent the eu-LISA’s Management Board or its members.