# 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), Article 17: Use of data for reporting and statistics

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

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:
1.. status information;
2.. the competent visa authority, including its location;
3.. current nationality of the applicant;
4.. Member State of first entry;
5.. date and place of the application or the decision concerning the visa;
6.. the type of visa issued;
7.. the type of the travel document;
8.. the grounds indicated for any decision concerning the visa or visa application;
9.. the competent visa authority, including its location, which refused the visa application and the date of the refusal;
10.. 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;
11.. main purpose(s) of the journey;
12.. 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);
13.. 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);
14.. 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/767/article/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-767/article-17
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