The second generation Schengen information System SIS II

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Carlos COELHO (EPP-ED, P) on the Schengen Information System. (Please see the summary dated 04/11/03.) The resolution was adopted by 354 votes in favour, 56 against and 28 abstentions. Parliament also recommended that: - each proposal for granting full or partial access to new authorities be thoroughly examined as regards the specific purpose for which those authorities need to access the SIS, which data they will be allowed to access, and how the access should take place (directly or indirectly). Special attention should be given to the position of private parties (e.g. in the case of vehicle registration); - the Council should ensure that the strategic management of the SIS and other large-scale IT-systems be entrusted to a European agency steered by a management board composed of representatives of the European institutions and Member States, and financed entirely from the EU budget and therefore subject to control by the European Parliament; - the Council should also decide as soon as possible on a definitive location for the central part of SIS II; - no task connected with running the SIS should be assigned to a private company.�