The second task of the Standing Committee shall be to lay the foundations so that the Executive Committee can ensure the proper application of the Schengen Convention by the States which have already brought it into force, in particular by following up the recommendations made by the visiting committees to the external borders, by ensuring that follow-up action is taken to remedy the shortcomings mentioned in the Annual Report on the External Borders, by focusing greater attention on the joint efforts needed to improve the quality of controls at the external borders and by optimising the application of the Convention in the fields of police cooperation, judicial cooperation and the SIS.The Standing Committee shall seek solutions to the problems detected and shall make proposals for the satisfactory and optimal implementation of the Convention.Sole responsibility for checking to ensure that the Convention is properly applied shall continue to remain with the Schengen States.The Standing Committee shall therefore confine itself to carrying out the verification procedures as defined in the following mandate.
Druga naloga stalnega odbora je ustvarjanje podlage, da lahko Izvršni odbor zagotovlja pravilno uporabo Konvencije o izvajanju Schengenskega sporazuma v državah, v katerih je uveljavljena, zlasti s spremljanjem izvajanja priporočil odborov, ki obiščejo zunanje meje, z zagotavljanjem ukrepov za odpravo pomanjkljivosti, navedenih v letnem poročilu o zunanjih mejah, s posvečanjem večje pozornosti skupnim prizadevanjem za izboljšanje kvalitete kontrol na zunanjih mejah in s prizadevanji za optimalno uporabo Konvencije na področju policijskega sodelovanja, sodelovanja sodstva in SIS. Stalni odbor rešuje ugotovljene probleme in pripravlja predloge za zadovoljivo in optimalno izvajanje Konvencije. Schengenske države so še naprej izključno odgovorne za preverjanje, ali se Konvencija pravilno uporablja. Stalni odbor se zato omeji na izvajanje postopkov preverjanja opredeljenih v njegovem mandatu.