Council Conclusions on SIS II 2003

With a view to ensuring that the second generation of the SIS is operational by 2006, to allow for additional Member States to participate to the SIS as well as to enhance the use, functionalities and the technical capacities of this system, the call for tenders for developing SIS II needs to be started in autumn 2003.

The current timetable according to the Commission and the results of the feasibility study is the Following

• June 2003 - Definite list of functionalities and decision on the architecture,

• August 2003 - Launch of the call for tender of SIS II,

• June 2004 - Signature of the contract for the detailed design and the development of SIS II and subsequent draft of the detailed design , • January 2005 - Start of SIS II development,

• Spring 2005 - Start of Schengen States/Member States national system adaptation,

• Autumn 2006 - Start migrating current Contracting Parties,

• End 2006 - Ready for integration of new Contracting Parties (the issue of whether acceding countries could integrate in parallel with present Parties is still under discussion).

This timetable will be permanently updated according to the evolution of the project, with a view to respect the deadline of end 2006. A special meeting of the SIS II Committee on 21 May 2003 has discussed and checked the feasibility of this timetable.

It is therefore necessary that the Council discusses and adopts the conclusions set out in chapter II and III concerning the functional requirements and the architecture: as they will determine the technical conditions for the SIS II, they need to be included in the technical specifications of the call for tender.

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Council Conclusions on SIS II 2003