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Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code)
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[F11. The competent consulate or the central authorities of the competent Member State shall verify whether:]
the application has been lodged within the period referred to in Article 9(1),
the application contains the items referred to in Article 10(3)(a) to (c),
the biometric data of the applicant have been collected, and
the visa fee has been collected.
[F12. Where the competent consulate or the central authorities of the competent Member State find that the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 have been fulfilled, the application shall be admissible and the consulate or the central authorities shall:
follow the procedures described in Article 8 of the VIS Regulation, and
further examine the application.]
[X1Data shall be entered in the VIS only by duly authorised consular staff in accordance with Article 6(1), Article 7 and points (5) and (6) of Article 9 of the VIS Regulation.]
[F13. Where the competent consulate or the central authorities of the competent Member State find that the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 have not been fulfilled, the application shall be inadmissible and the consulate or central authorities shall without delay:
return the application form and any documents submitted by the applicant,
destroy the collected biometric data,
reimburse the visa fee, and
not examine the application.]
[F14. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, an application that does not meet the requirements set out in paragraph 1 may be considered admissible on humanitarian grounds, for reasons of national interest or because of international obligations.]
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X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code) (Official Journal of the European Union L 243 of 15 September 2009).
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