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Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 is amended as follows:

(1) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: ‘By storing identity data, travel document data and biometric data in the common identity repository (CIR) established by Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817 of the European Parliament and of the Council (), the VIS contributes to facilitating and assisting in the correct identification of persons registered in the VIS under the conditions and for the purposes of Article 20 of that Regulation.

(2) in Article 4, the following points are added: ‘(12) ‘VIS data’ means all data stored in the VIS Central System and in the CIR in accordance with Articles 9 to 14;

(13) ‘identity data’ means the data referred to in Article 9(4)(a) and (aa);

(14) ‘fingerprint data’ means the data relating to the five fingerprints of the index, middle finger, ring finger, little finger and the thumb from the right hand and, where present, from the left hand;’;

(3) in Article 5, the following paragraph is inserted: ‘1a. The CIR shall contain the data referred to in Article 9(4)(a) to (c), (5) and (6). The remaining VIS data shall be stored in the VIS Central System.’;

(4) in Article 6 paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Access to the VIS for the purposes of consulting the data shall be reserved exclusively for the duly authorised staff of the national authorities of each Member State which are competent for the purposes laid down in Articles 15 to 22, and for the duly authorised staff of the national authorities of each Member State and of the Union agencies which are competent for the purposes laid down in Articles 20 and 21 of Regulation (EU) 2019/817. Such access shall be limited according to the extent that the data are required for the performance of their tasks for those purposes, and proportionate to the objectives pursued.’;

(5) in point (4) of Article 9, points (a) to (c) are replaced by the following: ‘(a) surname (family name); first name or names (given names); date of birth; sex;

(aa) surname at birth (former surname(s)); place and country of birth; current nationality and nationality at birth;

(b) the type and number of the travel document or documents and the three-letter code of the issuing country of the travel document or documents;

(c) the date of expiry of the validity of the travel document or documents;

(ca) the authority which issued the travel document and its date of issue;’.