The Ministry of Internal Affairs, through the National SIS Center, is responsible for the implementation, operation, maintenance, and security of the N.SIS, for ensuring the connection of the N.SIS to the central SIS, and for managing the national copy of the central SIS database, as well as for ensuring access of Romanian authorities to the N.SIS. The National Informatic Signaling System is the informatic system compatible with the second-generation Schengen Information System and ensures the management of national signals, of national interest and Schengen interest. SINS is intended to ensure the possibility for competent national authorities, through an automated procedure, to carry out transactions regarding the signals it contains, for the purpose of fulfilling legal duties. According to national legislation in the Schengen field, the authorities with responsibilities in SIS are: 1. Romanian Police; 2. Romanian Border Police; 3. Romanian Gendarmerie; 4. General Inspectorate for Immigration; 5. General Directorate for Internal Protection; 6. General Directorate for Population Records; 7. General Directorate for Passports; 8. General Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration and the public community services for driving license and vehicle registration regime; 9. Romanian Customs Authority; 10. Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 11. Ministry of Justice and the courts; 12. Public Ministry; 13. Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, through the Romanian Naval Authority; 14. Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, through the Romanian Civil Aeronautical Authority.*