Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2014 to Question 207075, on what legal basis Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein have access to the False and Authentic Documents Online database through their participation in the Schengen acquis.

False and Authentic Documents Online (FADO) is a measure building on the Schengen acquis. Switzerland and Liechtenstein participate by virtue of the 2008 Agreement between the European Union, the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Swiss Confederation's association with theimplementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis, and the subsequent Protocol on the accession of the Principality of Liechtensteinto that Agreement.

The participation of Norway and Iceland stems from the 1999 Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union, the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway on the association of these two states with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis.