ETIAS National Unit | Information on IT systems Schengen Area

Each Member State shall designate a competent authority as the ETIAS National Unit, which shall be responsible for:

Examining and deciding on applications for travel authorisation where the automated application process has reported a hit and the manual processing of the application has been initiated by the ETIAS Central Unit;
Ensuring that the tasks above and the corresponding results are recorded in the application files;
Ensuring that the data they enter in the application files are up to date in accordance with the relevant provisions;
Deciding to issue travel authorisations with limited territorial validity (LTV);
Ensuring coordination with other ETIAS National Units and Europol concerning the consultation requests;
Providing applicants with information regarding the procedure to be followed in the event of an appeal;
Annulling and revoking a travel authorisation.