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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1053/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1053",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 of 7 October 2013 establishing an evaluation and monitoring mechanism to verify the application of the Schengen acquis and repealing the Decision of the Executive Committee of 16 September 1998 setting up a Standing Committee on the evaluation and implementation of Schengen",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1053",
  "path": "article/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Questionnaire",
  "text": "1. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish and update a standard questionnaire in close cooperation with the Member States. Frontex and Europol may be consulted on the draft standard questionnaire. The standard questionnaire shall cover the relevant legislation, commonly agreed recommendations and best practices, in particular as stated in the Schengen catalogues, and the organisational and technical means available for the implementation of the Schengen acquis and available statistical data on each field of the evaluation. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 21(2).\n2. By 1 July each year, the Commission shall send the standard questionnaire to those Member States which are to be evaluated in the following year. The Member States shall provide the Commission with their replies to the questionnaire within eight weeks of communication of the questionnaire. The Commission shall make the replies available to the other Member States and shall inform the European Parliament of the replies. If so requested by the European Parliament, in particular as a result of the seriousness of the matter, the Commission shall, on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with the applicable rules on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission, also inform the European Parliament of the content of a specific reply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1053/article/9",
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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."
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