Access to data by border authorities at the external borders
Article 9
1. Border authorities shall access the ETIAS Central System to consult the data required for the performance of their duties. Border authorities shall have access to search the ETIAS Central System, via the Entry/Exit System, with the following data of the machine-readable zone of the travel document: (a) surname (family name); first name or names (given names); (b) date of birth; sex; nationality or nationalities; (c) the type and number of the travel document and the three letter code of the issuing country of the travel document; (d) the date of expiry of the validity of the travel document. All data listed in the second subparagraph shall be used to initiate the search. The data listed in point (a) may be searched in inexact mode while the other data shall be searched in exact mode. 2. Searches performed with the data listed in paragraph 1 of this Article shall return the data referred to in Article 47(2), points (a) to (d), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240, via the Entry/Exit System. 3. Where it is not possible to access the ETIAS Central System via the Entry/Exit System, the search referred to in paragraph 1 shall be performed in the ETIAS Central System via the European search portal. The results referred to in paragraph 2 shall be returned from the ETIAS Central System via the European search portal. Border authorities of the Member States operating the Entry/Exit System at their external borders shall use this possibility in exceptional cases. 4. Where the European search portal is not operational, the search referred to in paragraph 3 shall be carried out directly in the ETIAS Central System. The search will return the data referred to in Article 47(2), points (a) to (d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 from the ETIAS Central System. 5. In accordance with Article 47(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240, border authorities shall be able to access the ETIAS Central System to consult additional information that has been added to the application file in accordance with Article 39(1), point (e), or Article 44(6), point (f), of that Regulation. For that purpose border authorities shall have access, via the European search portal, to search the ETIAS Central System using the data listed in paragraph 1, second subparagraph of this Article. Until the European search portal is operational for use by border authorities, those searches shall be carried out directly in the ETIAS Central System. 6. Searches performed in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Article shall return the data referred to in Article 39(1), point (e), or Article 44(6), point (f), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240.