Division 1 TECHNICAL CONCEPT OF OWNERSHIP

A technical concept of ownership shall apply to the relationship between the Member State responsible for entering data in the VIS and these data.

The ownership shall be implemented by attaching the responsible Member State’s identification to the data entered in the visa application file.

The ownership of a visa application and of related decisions taken by visa authorities shall be registered in the VIS upon the creation of the application file or the entering of the related decision in the VIS and cannot be changed subsequently.