rec_61

(61) In order to establish the technical measures needed for the application of this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission: to define the requirements of the secure account service, to lay down the predetermined list of job groups used in the application form, to specify the content and format of questions to applicants relating to convictions for criminal offences, stays in war or conflict zones and decisions to leave the territory or return decisions, to specify the content and format of additional questions to applicants who reply affirmatively to one of the questions relating to convictions for criminal offences, stays in war or conflict zones and decisions to leave the territory or return decisions, and to set out a predetermined list of answers, to lay down the payment methods and process for collecting the travel authorisation fee and any changes to the amount of that fee to reflect any increase in the costs of ETIAS, to lay down the content and format of a predetermined list of options for applicants requested to provide additional information or documentation, to further define the verification tool, to further define the security, illegal immigration or high epidemic risks to be used to establish the specific risk indicators, to define the type of additional information related to flags that may be added in the ETIAS application file, its formats, language and the reasons for the flags, to establish adequate safeguards by providing rules and procedures to avoid conflicts with alerts in other information systems and to define the conditions, the criteria and the duration of the flagging, to further define the tool to be used by applicants to give and withdraw their consent, to extend the duration of the transitional period during which no travel authorisation is required and the duration of the grace period during which border guards will allow third-country nationals requiring a travel authorisation but not in possession of one exceptionally to enter subject to certain conditions, to define the financial support for Member States for expenses they incur to customise and automate border checks when implementing ETIAS.

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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.