Article 17

The competent visa authorities shall have access to consult the following data, solely for the purposes of reporting and statistics without allowing the identification of individual applicants: status information; the competent visa authority, including its location; current nationality of the applicant; border of first entry; date and place of the application or the decision concerning the visa; the type of visa requested or issued; the type of the travel document; the grounds indicated for any decision concerning the visa or visa application; the competent visa authority, including its location, which refused the visa application and the date of the refusal; the cases in which the same applicant applied for a visa from more than one visa authority, indicating these visa authorities, their location and the dates of refusals; purpose of travel; the cases in which the data referred to in Article 9(6) could factually not be provided, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5); the cases in which the data referred to in Article 9(6) was not required to be provided for legal reasons, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5); the cases in which a person who could factually not provide the data referred to in Article 9(6) was refused a visa, in accordance with the second sentence of Article 8(5).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.