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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1970 Article 4

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1970 Article 4

General software functionalities

Article 4

1.   The software shall have at least the following functionalities supporting users for the purpose of accessing, amending and erasing data: (a) the possibility to apply a pre-determined set of filters to customise the display of data for each job profile logged into the software; (b) the automatic saving of data added to the application file or draft amendments of data in the application file, where applicable, and logging out of the user after a pre-established period of inactivity; (c) the possibility to block access to a hit by another user for a limited period of time, including the marking of such blocked hits visible to other users; (d) the option to save progress made on the processing of an application by the ETIAS Central Unit or ETIAS National Units; (e) the option to mark and record, at any time, a possible data inaccuracy or processing in contravention of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 by the ETIAS Central Unit or the ETIAS National Units; (f) enabling communication and information exchange between users from the ETIAS Central Unit, the ETIAS National Units and Europol; (g) automatically deleting temporary notes referred to in Article 5(1), point (f), of this Decision at the time of completion of the manual processing by the ETIAS Central Unit and ETIAS National Units; (h) automatically deleting the file for extraction referred to in Article 5(1), points (g)(i) to (iv), after a decision has been taken on whether to issue or refuse a travel authorisation following the assessment of risks referred to in Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240; (i) preventing temporary notes referred to in Article 5(1), point (f), of this Decision from being visible to users other than those of the same Unit or Europol; (j) allowing the ETIAS Central Unit to process Europol requests referred to in Article 5(1), point (m), of this Decision. 2.   eu-LISA shall describe the details of the general software functionalities in the technical specifications referred to in Article 73(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240.

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