Division 3 Geographical Coverage

The Communication Infrastructure must be able to cover and provide the required services to all Member States:

All EU Member States (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom) and Iceland, Norway, Switzerland.

In addition, coverage of the accession countries Romania and Bulgaria needs to be catered for.

Finally, the Communication Infrastructure must be able to be extended to any other country or entity acceding to the Central SIS II (e.g. Europol, Eurojust).