Article 3 · Regulation (EU) 2023/2667

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Article 3Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 694/2003#

Regulation (EC) No 694/2003 is amended as follows:

(1)Article 1 is replaced by the following:‘Article 11.Facilitated Transit Documents (FTD) issued by the Member States as referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 693/2003 shall be issued in digital format referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 and contain the data fields set out in Annex I to this Regulation. They shall have the same value as limited territorial validity visas with the purpose of transit. In addition, the digital format shall clearly indicate that the issued document is an FTD.2.Facilitated Rail Transit Documents (FRTD) issued by the Member States as referred to in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 693/2003 shall be issued in digital format referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 and contain the data fields set out in Annex II to this Regulation. They shall have the same value as limited territorial validity visas with the purpose of transit. In addition, the digital format shall clearly indicate that the issued document is an FRTD.’;

(2)in Article 2(1), the introductory wording is replaced by the following:‘1.Technical specifications for the digital format for FTD and FRTD, including relating to the following, shall be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 4(2):’;

(3)in Article 2(1), points (a) and (b) are replaced by the following:

(a)technical standards and methods for:

(i)encoding the information contained in the digital FTD and digital FRTD in the form of a 2D barcode;

(ii)the facial image;

(b)specifications for generating the printable version of the digital FTD and digital FRTD;’;

(4)in Article 2, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:‘2.Commission may decide, by means of an implementing act, adopted in accordance with the examination procedure to be applied as referred to in Article 4(2) of this Regulation in conjunction with the transitional provision in Article 13(1), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note that the technical specifications referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article are to be secret and not be published. In that case those technical specifications shall be made available only to persons duly authorised by a Member State or by the Commission.

(5)Article 3 is deleted;

(6)in Article 5, the second sentence is deleted;

(7)in Article 6, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:‘Member States which have decided to do so shall issue the digital format for FTD and FRTD as referred to in Article 1 no later than one year after the adoption of the technical specifications referred to in Article 2.’;

(8)Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 694/2003 are replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation.