Editing Schengen Information System (section)

==Brexit==
Use of the Schengen Information System is limited to members of the European Union and signatories of the Schengen Agreement Application Convention. While still a member of the EU but not of the Schengen Agreement, the United Kingdom had limited access to the SIS. This access ceased  from 1 January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brexit: Britain will be less secure without access to shared data|url=https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-britain-will-be-less-secure-without-access-to-shared-data-12172399 |date=24 December 2020  |first1=Alistair |last1=Bunkall |access-date=2020-12-30|website=Sky News|language=en|archive-date=28 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228083034/https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-britain-will-be-less-secure-without-access-to-shared-data-12172399|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2020, the Security and Intelligence subcommittee of the [[House of Lords]], on hearing evidence by [[Home Office]] Minister [[James Brokenshire]], expressed concerns that failure of the (post-Brexit) [[trade negotiation between the United Kingdom and the EU]] could lead to worrying delays in access to counter-terrorism intelligence.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/16/failure-of-brexit-talks-could-lead-to-terrorism-intelligence-delays-say-lords | title = Failure of Brexit talks could lead to terrorism intelligence delays, say Lords. Real-time access to EU police databases has not yet been agreed in the negotiations | work = [[The Guardian]] | author = Lisa O'Carroll | date = 16 June 2020 | accessdate = 16 June 2020 | quote = Lord Ricketts, a former diplomat and the chair of the committee, questioned the "coherence" of the United Kingdom’s Brexit approach. It was looking for a Canada-style agreement in trade but a specially close arrangement in security and justice, "an equivalent position to that which perhaps Schengen countries have, or EEA countries have like Norway, Iceland but no other country", he said. | archive-date = 16 June 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200616154919/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/16/failure-of-brexit-talks-could-lead-to-terrorism-intelligence-delays-say-lords | url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2023 the United Kingdom gaining access to EU datasets was stated to be at "a very early stage", and was not expected to be completed before the 2027/2028 financial year.<ref name=syal>{{cite news| last=Syal | first=Rajeev | title=UK police and Border Force to remain locked out of EU database of criminals |newspaper=The Guardian | date=1 March 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/uk-police-and-border-force-to-remain-locked-out-of-eu-database-of-criminals |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230506211450/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/uk-police-and-border-force-to-remain-locked-out-of-eu-database-of-criminals |archive-date= May 6, 2023 }}</ref>

On 5th May 2025, the EU once again ruled out giving the UK access to both SIS II and the EuroDAC fingerprint database, despite direct approaches from, and negotiations led by, the UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer. <ref> {{cite news| url = https://uk.news.yahoo.com/labours-eu-reset-plans-dealt-104546473.html | title = Labour's EU reset plans dealt major blow by Brussels as data sharing vetoed }} </ref>