On Monday 4 February, the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee adopted, by 30 votes to 3, with 3 abstentions, the report by Carlos Coelho (EPP, Portugal) that seeks to improve the Visa Information System (VIS), a system that will be interoperable with other European databases such as the ETIAS system or the Schengen Information System.
The new regulation was proposed by the Commission in May (see EUROPE 12021) and the Member States adopted their mandates in December (see EUROPE...