Glossary

Data on fingerprints and palm prints which due to their unique character and the reference points contained therein enable accurate and conclusive comparisons on a person's identity. Also, fingerprint images, images of fingerprint latents, palm prints, palm print latents and templates of such images (coded minutiae) fall under this term when they are stored and dealt with in an automated database. Which type of Dactyloscopic data is stored depends on the rules applicable to each EU information system. 

Determines the purposes for which and the means by which personal data is processed. The data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests.

The management of the third-country national’s personal data (in accordance with Articles 15 to 20 of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226) - identity data, travel document data and biometric data (fingerprint data and facial image).

The act of having legal rights and complete control over a single piece or set of data elements. It defines and provides information about the rightful owner of the single piece or set of data elements, and the use and distribution policy implemented by the data owner. 

The EES’s data validation rules/flags being applied at the time of storing data in the EES Central System (e.g. missing facial image (FI)). Then, those data quality flags shall be returned to the border guard for action (for example, the border guard must add the missing facial image, as per the flag).

Third-country nationals whose data are to be recorded in the EES shall be informed by the Member State responsible of their rights. The information shall be provided in writing, by any appropriate means, in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, and it shall be made available, using clear and plain language, in a linguistic version the person concerned understands or is reasonably expected to understand, in order to ensure that third-country nationals are informed of their rights, at the time when the individual file of the person concerned is being created.

It can happen that while the authority is assessing the yellow link and the linked data, the authority realises that the MID made a mistake when comparing travel document data and there is de facto no case for a yellow link. In such a case, the authority deactivates the yellow link.

Data Exchange Between SIRENEs

The Commission adopts delegated acts (DAs) based on a delegation granted in the text of an EU law, in this case a legislative act. The Commission's power to adopt delegated acts is subject to strict limits which includes:

1. The delegated act cannot change the essential elements of the law;
2. The legislative act must define the objectives, content, scope and duration of the delegation of power; and Parliament and Council may revoke the delegation or express objections to the delegated act.

Under certain circumstances, the whole third-country national’s EES individual file must be deleted, namely: once a residence permit or a nationality of a Member State or the international protection is granted