{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2226/article-25",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/2226",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2017 establishing an Entry/Exit System (EES) to register entry and exit data and refusal of entry data of third-country nationals crossing the external borders of the Member States and determining the conditions for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes, and amending the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement and Regulations (EC) No 767/2008 and (EU) No 1077/2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2226",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Use of the EES for examining applications for access to national facilitation programmes",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities referred to in Article 8d of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 shall consult the EES for the purposes of the examination of applications for access to national facilitation programmes referred to in that Article and the adoption of decisions relating to those applications, including decisions to refuse, revoke or extend the period of validity of access to the national facilitation programmes in accordance with that Article.\n2. The competent authorities shall be given access to search with one or several of the following:\n(a) the data referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 16(1) or the data referred to in point (a) of Article 17(1);\n(b) the fingerprint data or the fingerprint data combined with the facial image.\n3. If the search with the data set out in paragraph 2 indicates that data on the third-country national are recorded in the EES, the competent authority shall be given access to consult the data of the individual file of that third-country national and the entry/exit records, as well as any refusal of entry records linked to that individual file.",
  "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/eur/2017/2226/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:24.483532+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."
}