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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-326/annex/division-1.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/326",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/326 of 25 February 2019 laying down measures for entering the data in the Entry/Exit System (EES)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-326",
  "path": "annex/division/1.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1.1",
  "heading": "Alphanumeric data",
  "text": "Most of the content stored in EES shall be extracted either from the Machine Readable Zone of the travel document or, where technically possible, electronically extracted from the electronic Machine Readable Travel Document (e-MRTD). It is therefore important that the information transmitted to the EES is compliant with the standards used for this, especially in the cases where it cannot be retrieved electronically and/or it has to be manually encoded by a border guard on the basis of data available in the Visual Inspection Zone. This applies only to the alphanumeric information that can be retrieved from the travel document's data page.\nThe following fields shall comply with the ICAO DOC9303 standard:\nSome exceptions compared to the ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3 may exist and will be documented in the technical specifications referred to in article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226. Any evolution of the ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3 standard will have to be reflected in the future.\nArticle\nAttribute\nStandard\n16(1)(a)\nSurname (family name); first name(s) (given names)\nICAO DOC9303\n16(1)(b)\nThree-letter code of the issuing country of the travel document or documents\nAs per: ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3\n16(2)(d)\nThree-letter code of the issuing Member State of a short stay visa sticker number\nAs per: ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3\n19(1)(d)\nThree-letter code of the issuing country of a visa sticker\nAs per: ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3\nIn addition, the following rules shall be respected:\n(a) Article 16(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 — border crossing point and authority that authorised the entry: the border crossing point is an authority of type Border Crossing Point. The list of authorities shall be maintained in accordance with the Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226.\n(b) Article 16(2)(c)- A flag to identify that the entry was performed by a third-country national who:\nis a member of the family of a Union citizen to whom Directive 2004/38/EC applies or of a national of a third country enjoying the right of free movement equivalent to that of Union citizens under an agreement between the Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and a third country, on the other; and\ndoes not hold a residence card pursuant to Directive 2004/38/EC or a residence permit pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002;\n(c) Article 16(2)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 — short stay visa sticker number: the information shall be retrieved from VIS. In case the short stay visa sticker number has not changed since the previous entry or exit, the information already stored in EES can be re-used for the new entry or exit.\n(d) Article 16(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 — A flag to identify if the third country national benefits from a national facilitation programme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Some exceptions compared to the ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3 may exist and will be documented in the technical specifications referred to in article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226. Any evolution of the ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha-3 standard will have to be reflected in the future."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002 of 13 June 2002 laying down a uniform format for residence permits for third-country nationals (OJ L 157, 15.6.2002, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}