Regulation (EC) No 767/2008
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Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 is an EU law establishing the rules for the Visa Information System (VIS), including the collection, storage and exchange of visa applicants’ data among Member States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10341872 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Context triple: [Visa Information System, legalBasis, Regulation (EC) No 767/2008]
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A.
Regulation (EC) No 216/2008
Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 was a key European Union legislative act establishing common rules in the field of civil aviation and creating the framework for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
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B.
Regulation (EC) No 294/2008
Regulation (EC) No 294/2008 is the EU legislative act that established the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and set out its mission, structure, and operating framework.
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C.
Regulation (EC) No 726/2004
Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 is an EU law that establishes the centralized procedure for the authorization and supervision of medicinal products and defines the role and powers of the European Medicines Agency.
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D.
Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005
Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 is a European Union legal act that established the framework for creating the European Fisheries Control Agency and harmonizing fisheries control and inspection across member states.
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E.
Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006
Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 is the European Union’s Paediatric Regulation, establishing rules to ensure that medicines for children are researched, developed, and authorized to the same high standards as those for adults.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Target entity description: Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 is an EU law establishing the rules for the Visa Information System (VIS), including the collection, storage and exchange of visa applicants’ data among Member States.
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A.
Regulation (EC) No 216/2008
Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 was a key European Union legislative act establishing common rules in the field of civil aviation and creating the framework for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
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B.
Regulation (EC) No 294/2008
Regulation (EC) No 294/2008 is the EU legislative act that established the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and set out its mission, structure, and operating framework.
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C.
Regulation (EC) No 726/2004
Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 is an EU law that establishes the centralized procedure for the authorization and supervision of medicinal products and defines the role and powers of the European Medicines Agency.
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D.
Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005
Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 is a European Union legal act that established the framework for creating the European Fisheries Control Agency and harmonizing fisheries control and inspection across member states.
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E.
Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006
Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 is the European Union’s Paediatric Regulation, establishing rules to ensure that medicines for children are researched, developed, and authorized to the same high standards as those for adults.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
EU legal act
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European Union regulation ⓘ Schengen acquis measure ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Council of the European Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
European Parliament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amendedBy |
Regulation (EU) 2017/2226
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regulation (EU) 2019/1155 NERFINISHED ⓘ Regulation (EU) 2019/817 NERFINISHED ⓘ Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 NERFINISHED ⓘ Regulation (EU) No 610/2013 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| applicableFrom | 2011-10-11 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Schengen Member States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
associated Schengen countries ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
EU data protection law
ⓘ
EU immigration and asylum law ⓘ |
| dateOfAdoption | 2008-07-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfEntryIntoForce | 2008-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfPublication | 2008-08-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfSignature | 2008-07-09 ⓘ |
| definesSystem | Visa Information System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishes |
central VIS database
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
national interfaces to VIS ⓘ |
| languageOfDocument | all official languages of the European Union ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Treaty establishing the European Community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalBasisArticle |
Article 62(2)(b)(ii) EC Treaty
NERFINISHED
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Article 66 EC Treaty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainObjective |
to contribute to internal security of the European Union
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to facilitate the fight against visa fraud ⓘ to improve the implementation of the common visa policy ⓘ to prevent threats to national security ⓘ to prevent threats to public policy ⓘ |
| number | 767/2008 ⓘ |
| OJNumber | 218 ⓘ |
| OJPageStart | 60 ⓘ |
| OJSeries | L ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Official Journal of the European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates |
collection of alphanumeric data of visa applicants
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collection of biometric identifiers of visa applicants ⓘ conditions for access to VIS data by border control authorities ⓘ conditions for access to VIS data by immigration authorities ⓘ conditions for access to VIS data by visa authorities ⓘ data protection safeguards for VIS data ⓘ retention periods for VIS data ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006
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Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 NERFINISHED ⓘ Schengen Borders Code NERFINISHED ⓘ Visa Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scope |
airport transit visas
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long-stay visas in certain cases ⓘ short-stay visas ⓘ |
| shortName | VIS Regulation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
access to VIS data by competent authorities
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collection of biometric data of visa applicants ⓘ establishment of the Visa Information System (VIS) ⓘ exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas ⓘ storage of visa application data ⓘ |
| title | Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 concerning the Visa Information System (VIS) and the exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Description of subject: Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 is an EU law establishing the rules for the Visa Information System (VIS), including the collection, storage and exchange of visa applicants’ data among Member States.
Referenced by (1)
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