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As part of the the CEUVIS project Slovenia, Hungary and Poland are testing the operation of the Central European Visa Information System. This is a central-European pilot project the purpose of which is to test the operation of the Central Visa Information System at the external borders and in consular offices.

Co-financed by the EU, the project aims to identify the impacts of the above mentioned visa information system on the performance of border checks.

The preliminary phase of the project began as early as on 1 January 2011 and ended with the launching of the system in November 2011. In the test phase, which began in mid-April 2012 at the border crossing points in Gruškovje and Dobova, police officers used stationary and mobile equipment to check fingerprints of third-country nationals entering the European Union with new biometric visas. The test phase ended in May while the project will officially end in early July. Hungary, the project coordinator, will report the outcomes to the European Commission on behalf of Slovenia and Poland.