Lee A. Bygrave (red.) YULEX 2002 - Universitetet i Oslo

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............................................................................ 96 Stephen K Karanja Figure 1: Austria: The technical aspects and functioning of the NIS and SIS SIRE- NE Dasta EKIS PFA FIS NSIS Communication part CSIS PFA – Criminal Register FIS – Foreigner Register Flow of information NSIS The diagram above (Figure 1) was used during the interviews to answer the question and clarify the confusion. It represents the flow of data and the technical and organisational aspects of SIS in Austria. The police, immigration authorities, customs services and courts may enter information into SIS. The process of entering data into SIS starts at the police stations. Here, police officers at the first level of criminal police au- NIS SIS Index part Other Countries SIS
............................................................................ The Schengen Information System in Austria 97 thority prepare an EKIS (national system for criminal investigation) document for entry into the national criminal system. The document is then transmitted to a data station (DASTA), which is a second level security authority (Sicherheitsdirektion). At the DASTA, the data is entered online by the staff into EKIS. If the EKIS document contains a special indicator for SISrelevant data, special software filters the data set from the EKIS file and communicates it to a specific file of NSIS, which is then communicated by special software to CSIS. Where the SIS data set is relevant to Article 95 (extradition) or Article 99 (discreet surveillance), it is first communicated to SIRENE and from there onto CSIS. CSIS, after indexing the data, distributes it to NSIS in all Schengen countries, including the NSIS in the reporting country. Once distributed, the data is searchable. The whole process takes only 3 minutes to complete, which means, therefore, that SIS is very up to date. The same search query is sent both to SIS and the national system in Austria. This is because a national search is not only a SIS search, it also involves a search in the national system. The explanation given was that if this were not the case, persons not registered in SIS might escape detection because a negative hit in SIS does not necessarily mean that a person is ’clean’. Searching the national system may reveal other information, as a person may be registered in the national system but not in SIS. As shown in the diagram, NSIS, SIRENE and NIS are all different technical and organisational units (see 5.2 below). Personnel working with these systems are different and the systems are located in different buildings. I had to travel to different locations and buildings to interview representatives of the different systems. As regards data protection and data security, keeping the systems separate is desirable so that any data protection problem affecting one system may not necessarily spill over to the other systems. 3.4 Access to Data in the System Access to data in SIS has also been a contentious issue. The Schengen Convention does not set limits to the number of persons with access authority, instead leaving access regulation to the national laws of the Contracting Parties. Consequently, the list of persons with access differs considerably among the Contracting Parties. The question relating to access to data in SIS was therefore aimed at establishing a clear picture of who has access, how many persons have access and how access is controlled in Austria. According to the Schengen Convention, data in SIS can be searched and accessed by authorities designated by the Contracting Parties for the purposes of border checks and controls, and other police and customs checks, when carried out inside the country in accordance with national law (Articles 92 &
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