Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Accelerated procedure | An expedite procedure to examine an application for international protection which is either deemed manifestly unfounded involving serious national security or public order concerns or is a subsequent application. |
| Access to data for identification | The border authorities or immigration authorities shall have access to search with the fingerprint data or the fingerprint data combined with the facial image, for the sole purpose of identifying any third-country national who may have been registered previously in the EES under a different identity or who does not fulfil or no longer fulfils the conditions for entry to, or for stay on, the territory of the Member States. |
| Access to data for verification | For the purpose for verifying the identity of the third-country national, or checking or verifying whether the conditions for entry or stay on the territory of the Member States are fulfilled, or both, the immigration authorities of the Member States shall have access to search EES with the data referred in the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 (points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 16(1) and point (a) of Article 17(1)). |
| Additional data | The data stored in SIS and connected with alerts in SIS which are to be immediately available to the competent authorities where a person in respect of whom data has been entered in SIS is located as a result of conducting a search in SIS. |
| Administrative hit | Informing another Member States that a search carried out during an administrative procedure has revealed the existence of an alert and the action to be taken could not carried out. H form is to be used. |
| Admission of an application | Admission and subsequent processing of an application for residence issued by a Member State, for acquiring the nationality of a Member State or international protection from a Member State. |
| Advance data erasure | Regarding the amendment of data and advance data erasure (Article 35 of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226), the Member State responsible shall have the right to amend the data which it has entered in the EES by rectifying, completing or erasing the data. |
| Advanced Passenger Information | Advance passenger information (API) is data collected by air carriers at check-in and sent to border control authorities in the country of destination. |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| Alert | The competent authorities can refuse entry of the third-country national at the border if he/she is a person for whom an alert has been issued for the purposes of refusing entry, in the SIS and in the national register. |