{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-876/annex/division-2/division-2.3/division-2.3.2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/876",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-876",
  "path": "annex/division/2/division/2.3/division/2.3.2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.3.2",
  "heading": "Linking applications of persons travelling together",
  "text": "In order to link application files of persons travelling together, in accordance with Article 8(4) of the VIS Regulation, the application numbers shall be transmitted to the VIS together with the appropriate type of group value, which shall be either family or travellers. Creation of a group or, for the purposes of correction, removal of the linkage between the individual group members, can only be performed by the Member State having the ownership of the application file(s) of the individual applicants within the group.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/876/annex/division/2/division/2.3/division/2.3.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:19.729434+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}