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(63) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission to adopt detailed rules on: a form allowing the reporting of abuses by commercial intermediaries authorised by applicants to submit applications on their behalf, the conditions for operation of the public website and the app for mobile devices, and detailed rules on data protection and security applicable to the public website and the app for mobile devices, the requirements governing the format of the personal data to be inserted in the application form and the parameters and verifications to be implemented for ensuring the completeness of the application and the coherence of these data, the requirements, testing and operation of the means of audio and video communication relied on for applicant interviews, and detailed rules on data protection, security and confidentiality applicable to such communication, the security, illegal immigration and high epidemic risks on which specific risk indicators are to be based, the technical specifications of the ETIAS watchlist and of the assessment tool to be used to assess the potential impact of entering data into the ETIAS watchlist on the proportion of applications that are manually processed, a form for refusal, annulment or revocation of a travel authorisation, the conditions for ensuring secure access to the ETIAS Information System by carriers, and the data protection and security rules applicable to this access, an authentication scheme for access to the ETIAS Information System for duly authorised members of carrier staff, the fall-back procedures to be followed in the case of a technical impossibility for carriers to query the ETIAS Information System, model contingency plans in the case of a technical impossibility for border authorities to consult the ETIAS Central System or in case of a failure of ETIAS, a model security plan and a model business continuity and disaster recovery plan concerning the security of processing of personal data, access to the data in the ETIAS Information System, amendment, erasure and advance erasure of data, the keeping of logs and access to them, performance requirements, specifications for technical solutions to connect central access points to the ETIAS Central System, a mechanism, procedures and interpretations of data quality compliance for the data contained in the ETIAS Central System, common leaflets to inform travellers of the requirement to be in possession of a valid travel authorisation, the operation of a central repository containing data solely for the purpose of reporting and statistics, and the data protection and security rules applicable to the repository, and the specifications of a technical solution for the purpose of facilitating the collection of statistical data necessary to report on the effectiveness of access to data stored in the ETIAS Central System for law enforcement purposes. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). .

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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.