# Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 September 2018 establishing a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) and amending Regulations (EU) No 1077/2011, (EU) No 515/2014, (EU) 2016/399, (EU) 2016/1624 and (EU) 2017/2226, Article 88: Start of operations

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

1. The Commission shall determine the date from which ETIAS is to start operations once the following conditions have been met:
(a) the necessary amendments to the legal acts establishing the EU information systems referred to in Article 11(2) with which interoperability shall be established with the ETIAS Information System have entered into force;
(b) the Regulation entrusting eu-LISA with the operational management of ETIAS has entered into force;
(c) the necessary amendments to the legal acts establishing the EU information systems referred to in Article 20(2) providing for an access to these databases for the ETIAS Central Unit have entered into force;
(d) the measures referred to in Article 15(5), Article 17(3), (5) and (6), Article 18(4), Article 27(3) and (5), Article 33(2) and (3), Articles 36(3), 38(3), 39(2), 45(3), 46(4), 48(4), 59(4), Article 73(3)(b), Article 83(1), (3), and (4) and Article 85(3) have been adopted;
(e) eu-LISA has declared the successful completion of a comprehensive test of ETIAS;
(f) eu-LISA and the ETIAS Central Unit have validated the technical and legal arrangements to collect and transmit the data referred to in Article 17 to the ETIAS Central System and have notified them to the Commission;
(g) the Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit have notified to the Commission the data concerning the various authorities referred to in Article 87(1) and (3).
2. The test of ETIAS referred to in point (e) of paragraph 1 shall be conducted by eu-LISA in cooperation with the Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit.
3. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of the results of the test carried out pursuant to point (e) of paragraph 1.
4. The Commission decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
5. The Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit shall start using ETIAS from the date determined by the Commission in accordance with paragraph 1.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/1240/article/88 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1240/article-88
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