European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice

In the margins of the Council, the Mixed Committee (the EU plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) held an orientation debate on the possibility of setting up an agency for large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice.

An agency for large-scale IT systems would be responsible for the operational management of VIS, SIS II and EURODAC, the IT system for comparing the fingerprints of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, in order to facilitate the application of the Dublin II Regulation, which makes it possible to determine the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application. The new agency would also be charged with the operational aspects of any other large-scale IT system developed in the future in the area of freedom, security and justice.