# Commission Decision of 30 November 2009 adopting technical implementing measures for entering the data and linking applications, for accessing the data, for amending, deleting and advance deleting of data and for keeping and accessing the records of data processing operations in the Visa Information System (notified under document C(2009) 9402) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2009/876/EC), Division 2.3.1: Linking applications if a previous application has been registered

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Only the Member State having ownership of an application file shall be allowed to link it with other application file(s) of the same applicant or, for the purposes of correction, remove the linkage, in accordance with Article 8(3) of the VIS Regulation.
The fingerprints of an applicant shall only be copied, within the 59 months time frame, from his/her linked files. In case the fingerprint data of an application are copied from a previous application file not older than 59 months, the linkage between the application files shall not be removed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/876/annex/division/2/division/2.3/division/2.3.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-876/annex/division-2/division-2.3/division-2.3.1
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