28.12.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 381/1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) REGULATION (EC) No 1986/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 2006 regarding access to the Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) by the services in the Member States responsible for issuing vehicle registration certificates THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO- PEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu- nity, and in particular Article 71 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1), After consulting the Committee of the Regions, Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (?), Whereas: (1) Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles (3) provides that Mem- ber States are to assist one another in the implementation of that Directive and may exchange information at bilat- eral or multilateral level, in particular, so as to check, before any registration of a vehicle, the latter’s legal status in the Member State in which it was previously registered. Such checking may involve the use of an electronic network. (1) OJ C 65, 17.3.2006, p. 27. (?) Opinion of the European Parliament of 25 October 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 19 Decem- ber 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJL138,1.6.1999, p. 57. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2003/127/EC (O] L 10, 16.1.2004, p. 29). (2)  Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 of the European Parlia- ment and of the Council of 20 December 2006 and Coun- cil Decision 2006/000/JHA of ... on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation of the Schen- gen Information System (SIS II) (4) (°) constitute the leg- islative basis for governing SIS II, which constitutes a shared database between Member States containing, inter alia, data on motor vehicles with a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cc, data on trailers with an unladen weight exceeding 750 kg and caravans and data on vehicle regis- tration certificates and vehicle number plates which have been stolen, misappropriated, lost or invalidated. (3)  Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 and Decision 2006/000/THA replace Articles 92 to 119 of the Conven- tion of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agree- ment of 14 June 1985 between the governments of the States of the Benelux economic union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders (¢) (the Schengen Convention’) with the exception of Article 102a thereof. That Article concerns access to the Schengen Information System by the authorities and ser- vices in the Member States responsible for issuing regis- tration certificates for vehicles. (4) It is now necessary to adopt a third instrument, based on Title V of the Treaty and complementing Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 and Decision 2006/000/JHA in order to allow access to SIS II by the services in the Member States responsible for issuing registration certificates for vehicles, and to replace Article 102a of the Schengen Convention. (5) Alerts on objects, including motor vehicles, are entered in SIS I for the purposes of seizure or use as evidence in criminal proceedings, pursuant to Decision 2006/000/JHA. (%) See page 4 of this Official Journal. (°) See page 99 of this Official Journal. (¢) OJ L 239, 22.9.2000, p. 19. Convention as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 1160/2005 (OJ L 191, 22.7.2005, p. 18).