Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council. Progress report on the development of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) July 2012 – December 2012

Summary:

This progress report describes the work carried out in the second semester of 2012, concerning the development of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) and preparations for migration from SIS 1+ to SIS II. It is presented to the Council and the European Parliament in accordance with Article 18 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1104/2008 of 24 October 2008 and of Council Decision 2008/839/JHA of 24 October 2008 on migration from the Schengen Information System (SIS 1+) to the SIS II.

As was demonstrated by the test campaigns carried out in the second half of 2012, considerable progress has been made in the development of the central system and in that of the majority of national systems. As a result, almost all the technical preparatory steps leading up to the actual migration of data were finalised in this reporting period.

However, to achieve such progress required overcoming some new difficulties.

The joint efforts and close cooperation of Member States with the Commission have ensured that the central project remained on track, in respect of both time and budget. On the other hand, the risk mitigation actions have significantly exhausted the remaining contingency margins.

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