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Responsibilities of eu-LISA during the designing and development phase eu-LISA shall define the design of the physical architecture of the system including its communication infrastructure as well as its technical specifications and their evolution and the NUIs. Those technical specifications shall be adopted by eu-LISA’s Management Board, subject to a favourable opinion from the Commission. eu-LISA shall also implement any necessary adaptations to the EES, SIS, Eurodac or VIS deriving from the establishment of interoperability with ETIAS. eu-LISA shall develop and implement the ETIAS Central System, including the ETIAS watchlist, the NUIs, the communication infrastructure, and the secure communication channel between the ETIAS Central System and the EES Central System, as soon as possible after the entry into force of this Regulation and the adoption by the Commission of: the measures provided for in Articles 6(4), 16(10), 17(9), Article 31 and Articles 35(7), 45(2), 54(2), 74(5), 84(2) and 92(8); and

the measures adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(2) necessary for the development and technical implementation of the ETIAS Central System, the NUIs, the communication infrastructure, the secure communication channel between the ETIAS Central System and the EES Central System and the carrier gateway, in particular implementing acts for: accessing the data in accordance with Articles 22 to 29 and Articles 33 to 53; amending, erasing and advance erasure of data in accordance with Article 55; keeping and accessing the logs in accordance with Articles 45 and 69; performance requirements; specifications for technical solutions to connect central access points in accordance with Articles 51, 52 and 53. The development shall consist of the elaboration and implementation of the technical specifications, testing and overall project coordination. In this regard, the tasks of eu-LISA shall also be to: perform a security risk assessment; follow the principles of privacy by design and by default during the entire lifecycle of the development of ETIAS; and

conduct a security risk assessment regarding the interoperability of ETIAS with the EU information systems and Europol data referred to in Article 11. eu-LISA’s Management Board shall establish the rules of procedure of the Programme Management Board which shall include in particular rules on: chairmanship; meeting venues; preparation of meetings; admission of experts to the meetings; communication plans to ensure that non-participating members of eu-LISA’s Management Board are fully informed. The chairmanship shall be held by a Member State which is fully bound under Union law by the legislative instruments governing the development, establishment, operation and use of all the large-scale IT systems managed by eu-LISA. All travel and subsistence expenses incurred by the members of the Programme Management Board shall be paid by eu-LISA. Article 10 of the eu-LISA Rules of Procedure shall apply mutatis mutandis. The Programme Management Board’s secretariat shall be ensured by eu-LISA.

The EES-ETIAS Advisory Group shall meet regularly until the start of operations by ETIAS. It shall report after each meeting to the Programme Management Board. It shall provide the technical expertise to support the tasks of the Programme Management Board and shall follow-up on the state of preparation of the Member States.