Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

3.3 Eurodac Regulation Regulation (EU) 603/2013 (recast) on the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of the Dublin Regulation and to request comparisons with Eurodac data by Member States’ law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes and amending Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice: Main aim: • EURODAC makes it easier for EU States to determine responsibility for examining an asylum application by comparing fingerprints. • When someone applies for asylum, no matter where they are in the EU, their fingerprints are transmitted to the EURODAC central system. • Its primary objective is to serve the implementation of Regulation (EU) No. 604/2013 (‘the Dublin Regulation’) and together these two instruments make up what is commonly referred to as the ‘Dublin system’. It replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 2725/2000 of 11 December 2000.

Eurodac regulation covers these areas:

• The creation of fingerprint biometric database facilitating the application of the Dublin System and fingerprint comparison for law enforcement purposes

Eurodac consists of a Central System, which operates a computerised central database of fingerprint data, as well as of the electronic means of transmission between the Member States and the Central System. Eurodac is at central level operated by the EU agency “eu-LISA” established by a Regulation ( ) . eu-LISA headquarters is in ( ). Currently eu-LISA is also managing other IT databases ( ) and ( ) .

? Check the internet, find the home page of eu-LISA agency and fill in the missing piece of information inside the brackets.

Solution (print bottom up) 1077/2011 (reinforced by 2018/1726), Tallinn (Estonia), Schengen IS (SIS II), VISA IS (VIS)

Why Eurodac? 1) It is necessary to establish the identity of applicants for international protection and of persons apprehended in connection with the unlawful crossing of the external borders of the Union. It is also desirable to allow each Member State to check whether a third-country national or stateless person

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