Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Amended proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems (borders and visa) and amending Council Decision 2004/512/EC, Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, Council Decision 2008/633/JHA, Regulation (EU) 2016/399, Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the ETIAS Regulation], Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the Regulation on SIS in the field of border checks] and Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the eu-LISA Regulation]’

(COM(2018) 478 final — 2017/0351 (COD))

and on ‘Amended proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems (police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration) and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the Eurodac Regulation], Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the Regulation on SIS in the field of law enforcement], Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the ECRIS-TCN Regulation] and Regulation (EU) 2018/XX [the eu-LlSA Regulation]’

(COM(2018) 480 final — 2017/0352 (COD))

(2019/C 62/51)

Referral	European Parliament, 10.9.2018
Legal basis	Articles 16(2), 74, 77(2)(a) (b) (d) and (e) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Section responsible	Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship
Adopted at plenary	17.10.2018
Plenary session No	538
Outcome of vote (for/against/abstentions)	196/2/5

Since the Committee endorses the contents of the proposal and has already set out its views on the subject in its earlier opinion SOC/573 — Interoperability package (1), adopted on 23 May 2018, it decided, at its 538th plenary session of 17 and 18 October 2018 (meeting of 17 October 2018), by 196 votes to two with five abstentions, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document(s).

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(1)  OJ C 283, 10.8.2018, p. 48