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Schengen Information System (SIS)

01 January 1994

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The French Senate's information committee published its report on the application of the Schengen Treaty after 31 months deliberation. It confirmed that the Treaty cannot be implemented until the Schengen Information System (SIS) is fully operative. It was intended that the SIS would be up and working from the beginning of February but this date has been put back yet again.

The information committee's report said that the software problems which were delaying the start of the SIS were due to a political decision which overruled the technical committee. The SIS Permanent Working Group, set up in 1988, was charged with setting up the central system (known as C-SIS) and coordinating the national intelligence systems (N-SIS). Its members comprise computer experts and "users" (police, gendarmerie, security services and customs). The decision to choose the communications standard X 400 - proposed by the consortium of Seimens/Bull - was imposed by politicians against technical advice and is the reason for the delay.

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