{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-817/article-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-817/article-64.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/817",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/817 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of borders and visa and amending Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EU) 2016/399, (EU) 2017/2226, (EU) 2018/1240, (EU) 2018/1726 and (EU) 2018/1861 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Decisions 2004/512/EC and 2008/633/JHA",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-817",
  "path": "article/64",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Amendments to Decision 2004/512/EC",
  "text": "In Article 1 of Decision 2004/512/EC, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:\n‘2. The Visa Information System shall be based on a centralised architecture and consist of:\n(a) the common identity repository central infrastructure as referred to in Article 17(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817 of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n(b) a central information system, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Central Visa Information System’ (CS-VIS);\n(c) an interface in each Member State, hereinafter referred to as the ‘National Interface’ (NI-VIS), to provide the connection to the relevant central national authority of the respective Member State;\n(d) a communication infrastructure between the Central Visa Information System and the National Interfaces;\n(e) a Secure Communication Channel between the EES Central System and the CS-VIS;\n(f) a secure communication infrastructure between the VIS Central System and the central infrastructure of the European search portal established by Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817 and of the common identity repository established by Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817.’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EU) 2019/817 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of borders and visa and amending Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EU) 2016/399, (EU) 2017/2226, (EU) 2018/1240, (EU) 2018/1726 and (EU) 2018/1861 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Decisions 2004/512/EC and 2008/633/JHA (OJ L 135, 22.5.2019, p. 27).’."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/817/article/64",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:22.844358+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."
}