{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-767/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-767/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/767",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 concerning the Visa Information System (VIS) and the exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas (VIS Regulation)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-767",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of data for reporting and statistics",
  "text": "The competent visa authorities shall have access to consult the following data, solely for the purposes of reporting and statistics without allowing the identification of individual applicants:\n1.. status information;\n2.. the competent visa authority, including its location;\n3.. current nationality of the applicant;\n4.. Member State of first entry;\n5.. date and place of the application or the decision concerning the visa;\n6.. the type of visa issued;\n7.. the type of the travel document;\n8.. the grounds indicated for any decision concerning the visa or visa application;\n9.. the competent visa authority, including its location, which refused the visa application and the date of the refusal;\n10.. the cases in which the same applicant applied for a visa from more than one visa authority, indicating these visa authorities, their location and the dates of refusals;\n11.. main purpose(s) of the journey;\n12.. the cases in which the data referred to in point (6) of Article 9 could factually not be provided, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5);\n13.. the cases in which the data referred to in point (6) of Article 9 was not required to be provided for legal reasons, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8 (5);\n14.. the cases in which a person who could factually not provide the data referred to in point (6) of Article 9 was refused a visa, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code)."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 concerning the Visa Information System (VIS) and the exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas (VIS Regulation) (Official Journal of the European Union L 218 of 13 August 2008)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/767/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:07.121208+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."
}