Schengen Information System (SIS II)

The Danish Data Protection Agency is the national supervisory authority in relation to processing of personal data in the Danish part of the Schengen Information System. This supervisory role mainly entails inspections and handling complaints from persons registered in SIS.

Schengen Information System (SIS)

Your rights

If you are registered in SIS, you have certain rights. You generally have the right to know whether data about you has been entered in the SIS, as well as the right to access personal data about you. You also have the right to have factually incorrect data corrected and you can request erasure of unlawfully registered data.

You must contact the authority that has dealt with the case underlying your registration in SIS.

If you want to request access to data about you that has been registered in SIS, please contact the Danish National Police using the relevant form available on their website.

If you want to:

rectify data about you in SIS which you believe is factually incorrect or incomplete, or
demand the erasure of data about you in SIS which you believe has been illegally registered

you can – depending on who has registered you in SIS – contact one of the following authorities:

The Danish Return Agency (Hjemrejsestyrelsen) using the relevant form available on their website.
The Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) using form available on their website.
The immigration Service using form available on their website.

Supervision

Complaints

If you are dissatisfied with a decision made by the Danish National Police concerning your request to access or a decision made by The Danish Return Agency concerning your request to rectify or erase data about you in the SIS, you can submit a complaint to the Danish Data Protection Agency.

If you wish to file a complaint concerning a decision made by the Danish National Police or The Danish Return Agency please provide the following information:

a description of the nature of your complaint
a copy of the decision or response that you received from the Danish National Police or The Danish Return Agency
any other material that you think is relevant to your complaint

You can access our complaint form here.

If you are dissatisfied with the Danish DPA’s decision you may bring the matter before the Danish courts.