Common Identity Repository

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The Common Identity Repository ( CIR , dt. : Shared memory for identity data ) is an information system for border protection and security authorities in the Schengen countries . In addition to similar systems in China and India, it is one of the largest information systems for querying biometric data worldwide. It is used to evaluate six non-public databases on people, motor vehicles, banknotes, stolen identity documents and firearms. Police authorities, border protection and security authorities in Schengen countries as well as the European authorities Europol and Eurojust are authorized to access them .

structure

With a uniform user interface, CIR enables the following six databases to be queried:

  • SIS ( Schengen Information System )
  • VIS Visa Information System
  • EURODAC (European Dactyloscopy) - prints of all fingers of asylum seekers, certain third-country nationals and stateless persons aged 14 and over
  • EES (Entry / Exit System) - biometric data of all third-country nationals crossing the EU's external borders.
  • ECRIS-TCN (“European Criminal Records Information System for Third-country Nationals”) - criminal records for third-country nationals resident in the EU.
  • ETIAS (European travel information and authorization system - like ESTA in the USA)

as well as at Europol and Interpol agencies.

Legal Aspects

The legal bases are:

  • the Schengen Agreement and the associated implementing agreements
  • the interoperability regulation for police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration
  • the interoperability regulation for borders and visas

such as

  • Regulation (EU) 2019/816
  • Regulation (EU) 2019/817
  • Regulation (EU) 2019/818

Time schedule

Commissioning is planned for 2023.

costs

  • 425 million euros - for the development of "interoperability" by 2027
  • 480 million euros for EES
  • 210 million euros for ETIAS
  • 68 million euros for the SIS II renewal

Further resources are needed for Eurodac and the VIS. The costs of the central systems are borne by the general budget of the Union.
Member States and Europol pay for national connections. Governments can apply for funding from the Internal Security Fund.

Centralization: European Agency for Large IT Systems

The operation of the CIR is up to the European Agency for large IT systems ( English Agency for large-scale IT systems ). The Eu-LISA agency started operations in Tallinn , the capital of Estonia , on December 1, 2012.

Criticism and abuse

The search itself is intended to solve serious crimes. Civil rights activists see this concentration of biometric data from governments as a threat to privacy, as a Belgian official sold SIS data to organized crime as part of the “Schengen data theft affair” . Raphael Bossong ( Science and Politics Foundation ) objected: It remains unclear “whether the proportionality is correct and how the legally vague term of 'serious crimes' is then concretely interpreted”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Monroy: EU merges biometric data pools: Now comes the query tsunami. February 6, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Regulation (EU) 2019/816 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of April 17, 2019 on the establishment of a centralized system for identifying the Member States in which information on convictions of third-country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) is available, to supplement the European Criminal record information system and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1726 , OJ: L 135/1 of May 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ Regulation (EU) 2019/817 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 May 2019 establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the areas of borders and visas and amending Regulation (EC) No. 767/2008, (EU) 2016/399, (EU) 2017/2226, (EU) 2018/1240, (EU) 2018/1726 and (EU) 2018/1861 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Decision 2004/512 / EC of the Council and Council Decision 2008/633 / JHA , OJ: L 135/27 of 22 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Regulation (EU) 2019/818 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 May 2019 establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems (police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration) and amending Regulations (EU) 2018 / 1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 , OJ: L 135/85 of May 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ EU agency for large scale IT systems. (PDF; 79 kB) Council of The European Union, September 12, 2011, accessed on September 4, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Christian Kirsch: EU founds authority for its large IT systems. In: heise online. September 12, 2011, accessed September 4, 2012 .
  7. ^ Raphael Bossong (Science and Politics Foundation): Intelligent borders and interoperable databases for the internal security of the EU. Implementation risks and legal requirements