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Chapter VI · ISSUE, REFUSAL, ANNULMENT OR REVOCATION OF A TRAVEL AUTHORISATION › Article 41

Revocation of a travel authorisation

1.   A travel authorisation shall be revoked where it becomes evident that the conditions for issuing it are no longer met. The travel authorisation shall be revoked on the basis of one or more of the grounds for refusal of the travel authorisation laid down in Article 37(1).
2.   Where a Member State is in possession of evidence that the conditions for issuing the travel authorisation are no longer met, the ETIAS National Unit of that Member State shall revoke the travel authorisation.

3.   Without prejudice to paragraph 2, where a new alert is entered in SIS concerning a refusal of entry and stay or concerning a travel document reported as lost, stolen, misappropriated or invalidated, SIS shall inform the ETIAS Central System. The ETIAS Central System shall verify whether that new alert corresponds to a valid travel authorisation. Where this is the case, the ETIAS Central System shall transfer the application file to the ETIAS National Unit of the Member State having entered the alert. Where a new alert for refusal of entry and stay has been entered, the ETIAS National Unit shall revoke the travel authorisation. Where the travel authorisation is linked to a travel document reported as lost, stolen, misappropriated or invalidated in SIS or the Interpol SLTD database, the ETIAS National Unit shall manually process the application file.

4.   New data entered into the ETIAS watchlist shall be compared to the data of the application files in the ETIAS Central System. The ETIAS Central System shall verify whether those new data correspond to a valid travel authorisation. Where this is the case, the ETIAS Central System shall transfer the application file to the ETIAS National Unit of the Member State having entered the new data, or where Europol entered the new data, to the ETIAS National Unit of the Member State of first intended stay as declared by the applicant in accordance with point (j) of Article 17(2). That ETIAS National Unit shall assess the security risk and shall revoke the travel authorisation where it concludes that the conditions for granting it are no longer met.
5.   Where a refusal of entry record is entered in the EES concerning the holder of a valid travel authorisation and that record is justified by reason B or I listed in Annex V, Part B, to Regulation (EU) 2016/399, the ETIAS Central System shall transfer the application file to the ETIAS National Unit of the Member State having refused entry. That ETIAS National Unit shall assess whether the conditions for granting the travel authorisation are still met and, if not, shall revoke the travel authorisation.
6.   The justification for the decision to revoke a travel authorisation shall be recorded in the application file by the staff member having performed the risk assessment.
7.   An applicant whose travel authorisation has been revoked shall have the right to appeal. Appeals shall be conducted in the Member State that has taken the decision on the revocation and in accordance with the national law of that Member State. The ETIAS National Unit of the Member State responsible shall provide applicants with information regarding the appeal procedure. The information shall be provided in one of the official languages of the countries listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of which the applicant is a national.
8.   A travel authorisation may be revoked at the request of the applicant. No appeal shall be possible against a revocation on this basis. If the applicant is present on the territory of a Member State when such a request is introduced, the revocation shall become effective once the applicant has exited the territory and from the moment the corresponding entry/exit record has been created in the EES in accordance with Articles 16(3) and 17(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226.

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