Schengen Information Centre Opens as Another Step to Establish Europol Is Taken

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Tuesday, September 1, 1992
Volume: 
8
Issue: 
9
Pg. 366
Abstract: 

During the first week of September, the Schengen Information Centre (SIS) was established in Neuhof, which is also the provisional headquarters for Europol. An essential component of the SIS is an enormous Bull-Siemens computer system, which will receive police data from the eight Schengen signatories. The SIS data bank will remain empty until all eight signatories – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Portugal – have ratified the Convention…[more]