{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-876/annex/division-2/division-2.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-876/annex/division-2/division-2.4.json",
  "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/2.4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.4",
  "heading": "Procedures when particular data are not required to be provided for legal reasons or factually cannot be provided",
  "text": "In accordance with Article 8(5) of the VIS Regulation the entry ‘not applicable’ shall be entered into textual fields manually or, when available, by selecting the value from a code table. If the data field consists of more than one element, such an entry shall be used for each of them.\nIn case fingerprints are not required or cannot be provided, in accordance with Article 8(5) of the VIS Regulation, two Boolean fields shall be implemented in the VIS:\n‘fingerprintsNotRequired’,\n‘fingerprintsNotApplicable’,\nThese fields shall be set according to the table below indicating three possible situations:\nthe fingerprints are required to be provided,\nthe fingerprints are not required to be provided for legal reasons,\nthe fingerprints cannot factually be provided.\nField in the VIS\nFingerprints are required to be provided\nFingerprints are not required to be provided for legal reasons\nFingerprints cannot be factually provided\n‘fingerprintsNotRequired’\nFALSE\nTRUE\nFALSE\n‘fingerprintsNotApplicable’\nFALSE\nTRUE\nTRUE\nIn addition, the appropriate free text field ‘ReasonForFingerprintNotApplicable’ shall contain the actual reason.\nWhen a Member State transmits only data referred to in Article 5(1)(a) and (b) of the VIS Regulation, pursuant to Article 48(3), the absence of data referred to in Article 5(1)(c) shall be indicated by entering the remark ‘not applicable’, complemented by a reference to Article 48(3) of the VIS regulation in the free text field indicating that the data are not required to be provided for legal reasons. The relevant fields shall be set up as ‘FingerprintsNotRequired’ TRUE and ‘FingerprintsNotApplicable’ TRUE.",
  "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/2.4",
    "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."
}