L 36/8 Official Journal of the European Union 12.2.2015 COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/215 of 10 February 2015 on the putting into effect of the provisions of the Schengen acquis on data protection and on the provisional putting into effect of parts of the provisions of the Schengen acquis on the Schengen Information System for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to Council Decision 2000/365/EC of 29 May 2000 concerning the request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis (*), and in particular Article 6(1) and (3) thereof, Whereas: (1) By Decision 2000/365/EC, the Council authorised the United Kingdom to participate in parts of the Schengen acquis. (2)  Following the notifications of the United Kingdom of its wish to make use of the possibilities in accordance with Article 10(4) and (5) of Protocol No 36 on transitional provisions, annexed to the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), Decision 2000/365/EC has been amended by Council Decision 2014/857[EU (3. (3)  In accordance with Article 4 of Protocol No 19 on the Schengen acquis integrated into the framework of the European Union (‘Schengen Protocol’), annexed to the TEU and to the TFEU, Decision 2000/365/EC specifies in Article 6(3) thereof read in conjunction with Article 6(1) thereof, that the provisions referred to in Article 1(a)(ii) thereof, as well as other relevant provisions concerning the Schengen Information System (SIS) adopted since 1 December 2009, but not yet put into effect, are to be put into effect, between the United Kingdom and the Member States and other States for which these provisions have already been put into effect, when the precon- ditions for the implementation of those provisions have been fulfilled, by an implementing decision taken by the Council, acting with the unanimity of its members as referred to in Article 1 of the Schengen Protocol and of the representative of the Government of the United Kingdom. (4)  In November 2012, the United Kingdom expressed its intention to commence implementation of the following parts of the Schengen acquis: the SIS and the related data protection rules. (5)  In July 2013, a questionnaire was forwarded to the United Kingdom, whose replies were recorded, and a subsequent verification and evaluation visit was carried out in the United Kingdom in accordance with the procedures applicable in the area of data protection. (6)  As regards the application of the Schengen acquis relating to data protection, the replies to the questionnaire, and the visit carried out in October 2013 demonstrated that the requirements relating to legislation, manpower levels, infrastructure and material resources had been satisfied. (7)  Therefore, the Council was in a position to conclude on 3 March 2014 that the preconditions for the implemen- tation by the United Kingdom of the provisions of the Schengen acquis as referred to in Article 1(a)(ii) of Decision 2000/365(EC, in so far as they relate to data protection, have been fulfilled, allowing those provisions and their subsequent developments to be provisionally put into effect for the United Kingdom. (8)  The United Kingdom indicated that it was ready to provisionally put into effect the parts of the Schengen acquis referred to in Article 1(a)(ii) of Decision 2000/365/EC, in so far as they relate to the functioning of the SIS, as from 13 February 2015. () OJL131,1.6.2000, p. 43. (*) Council Decision 2014/857[EU of 1 December 2014 concerning the notification of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of its wish to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis which are contained in acts of the Union in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and amending Decisions 2000/365/EC and 2004/926/EC (O] L 345, 1.12.2014, p. 1).