1.
The Commission shall determine the date from which ETIAS is to start operations once the following conditions have been met:
(a)
the necessary amendments to the legal acts establishing the other EU information systems with which interoperability, within the meaning of Article 11 of this Regulation, is to be established with the ETIAS Information System have entered into force, with the exception of the recast of Regulation (EU) No 603/2013;
(b)
the Regulation entrusting eu-LISA with the operational management of ETIAS has entered into force;
(c)
the necessary amendments to the legal acts establishing the EU information systems referred to in Article 20(2) providing for an access to these databases for the ETIAS Central Unit have entered into force;
(d)
the measures referred to in Article 11(9) and (10), Article 15(5), Article 17(3), (5) and (6), Article 18(4), Article 27(3) and (5), Article 33(2) and (3), Article 36(3), Article 38(3), Article 39(2), Article 45(3), Article 46(4), Article 48(4), Article 59(4), point (b) of Article 73(3), Article 83(1), (3), and (4) and Article 85(3) have been adopted;
(e)
eu-LISA has declared the successful completion of a comprehensive test of ETIAS;
(f)
eu-LISA and the ETIAS Central Unit have validated the technical and legal arrangements to collect and transmit the data referred to in Article 17 to the ETIAS Central System and have notified them to the Commission;
(g)
the Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit have notified to the Commission the data concerning the various authorities referred to in Article 87(1) and (3).
2. The test of ETIAS referred to in point (e) of paragraph 1 shall be conducted by eu-LISA in cooperation with the Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit.
3. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of the results of the test carried out pursuant to point (e) of paragraph 1.
4. The Commission decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
5. The Member States and the ETIAS Central Unit shall start using ETIAS from the date determined by the Commission in accordance with paragraph 1.
6. ETIAS shall start operations irrespective of whether interoperability with Eurodac or ECRIS-TCN is put in place.
7. ETIAS shall start operations regardless of whether it is possible to query the Interpol databases referred to in Article 12.