L 27224 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.10.2000 II (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 17 October 2000 correcting the Schengen acquis as contained in Schengen Executive Committee SCH/Com-ex (94)15 (2000/645EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the first sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 2(1) of the Protocol annexed to the Treaty on Euro- pean Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, integrating the Schengen acquis into the frame- work of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Schengen Protocol), Whereas: 1) 0] 0] Schengen Executive Committee decision SCH/Com-ex (94)15 rev. (') was defined as forming part of the Schengen acquis in Annex A to Council Decision 1999/ 435/EC of 20 May 1999 concerning the definition of the Schengen acquis for the purpose of determining, in conformity with the relevant provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Community and the Treaty on European Union, the legal basis for each of the provi- sions or decisions which constitute the acquis (). Decision SCH/Com-ex (94)15 rev. introduced a compu- terised procedure for consultation, for the purposes of issuing visas, of the central authorities referred to in Article 17(2) of the Convention, signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990, between the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual aboli- tion of checks at their common borders. Decision SCH/Com-ex (94)15 rev. also provided that the aforementioned computerised procedure should be applied pursuant to the principles laid down in the data L 239, 22.9.2000, p. 165. L 176, 10.7.1999, p. 1. rev. dictionary attached thereto (contained in document SCH-II-Vision (93)20 rev. 3, entitled ‘Schengen consulta- tion network (technical specifications)). Document SCH/II-Vision (93)20 rev. 3 was replaced by document SCH/II-Vision (99)5 (also entitled ‘Schengen consultation network (technical specifications)’). This document was approved by the Vision subgroup of Working Group II on Movement of Persons on 31 March 1999 but, through an oversight, Decision SCH/Com-ex (94)15 rev. was not updated by the Execu- tive Committe to take account of such approval before the integration of the Schengen acquis into the frame- work of the European Union. This oversight must now be corrected by replacing the reference in Decision SCH/Com-ex (94)15 rev. to docu- ment SCH/II-Vision (93)20 rev. 3 by a reference to document SCH/II-Vision (99)5, so that the version of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifications) currently in use is formally approved by the Council, which has substituted itself for the Executive Committee pursuant to the second sentence of the first subpara- graph of Article 2(1) of the Schengen Protocol. Since the aim of this Decision is to rectify the omission of the Executive Committee to acknowledge the version of the Schengen consultation network (technical specifi- cations) contained in SCH/II-Vision (99)5 as part of the Schengen acquis before that acquis was integrated into the framework of the European Union and to confirm its integration, but not to make any amendments to the document itself, Article 2(1) of the Schengen Protocol constitutes the appropriate legal basis for doing so, it being understood that any subsequent amendments to SCH/II-Vision (99)5 will have to be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Treaties.