"Commission proposes changes to JLS databases to strengthen EU internal security and facilitate legitimate travelling"

According to the Press Room of the European Commission, "With a view to achieving a higher level of EU internal security the European Commission today adopted a package of measures consisting of:
(a) a proposal for a Council Decision concerning the access for consultation to the Visa Information System (VIS) to authorities of Member States responsible for internal security and to Europol for the purposes of the prevention, detection and investigation of terrorist offences and of other serious criminal offences, and
(b) a communication on the medium- and long-term development of the three common European databases in the field of justice and home affairs: the Schengen Information System (SIS), the Visa Information System (VIS) and EURODAC, the database containing fingerprints of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants."

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