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The Commission shall determine the date from which the VIS is to start operations, when: the measures referred to in Article 45(2) have been adopted; the Commission has declared the successful completion of a comprehensive test of the VIS, which shall be conducted by the Commission together with Member States; following validation of technical arrangements, the Member States have notified the Commission that they have made the necessary technical and legal arrangements to collect and transmit the data referred to in Article 5(1) to the VIS for all applications in the first region determined according to paragraph 4, including arrangements for the collection and/or transmission of the data on behalf of another Member State.
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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.