30. Is aware of the need to communicate risks and benefits more clearly and transparently to the public; underlines the necessity to arrive at a coherent message to the citizens as soon as a health hazard is evaluated; insists on the importance of consistent communication by the Member States regarding the informative contents of the message (e.g. the nature of the virus, the nature of the risk, how best to prevent it and the risks and benefits of prevention and/or treatment);

30. Is aware of the need to communicate risks and benefits more clearly and transparently to the public; underlines the necessity to arrive at a coherent message to the citizens as soon as a health hazard is evaluated; insists on the importance of consistent communication by the Member States regarding the informative contents of the message (e.g. the nature of the virus, the nature of the risk, how best to prevent it and the risks and benefits of prevention and/or treatment);

These should include messages related to consular cooperation (Article 16(3) of the VIS Regulation), messages related to the transmission of requests to the competent visa authority to forward copies of travel documents and other documents supporting the application and to the transmission of electronic copies of those documents (Article 16(3) of the VIS Regulation), messages that data processed in the VIS are inaccurate or that data were processed in the VIS contrary to the provisions of the VIS Regulation (Article 24(2) of the VIS Regulation) and messages that an applicant has acquired the nationality of a Member State (Article 25(2) o ...[+++]f the VIS Regulation).

‘flight message transfer protocol’ means a protocol for electronic communication comprising message formats, their encoding for interchange and sequence rules used for the information exchanges between flight data processing systems.

1. This Regulation lays down requirements for the application of a flight message transfer protocol for information exchanges between flight data processing systems for the purpose of notification, coordination and transfer of flights between air traffic control units and for the purposes of civil-military coordination, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1032/2006.

- With the exception of one Member State (UK) which came in for criticism, the inspection of the treatment of mutual assistance messages in all the Member States showed that, in general, the national systems are appropriate although some structural flaws in the form of delays in the chain of internal communication and feedback to the Commission) were revealed.