Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| e-gate | Means an infrastructure operated by electronic means where an external or internal border whose controls have not yet been lifted is actually crossed. |
| Early Warning & Response System | A rapid alert system for notifying alerts at EU level on serious cross-border threats to health. |
| EAW | The European arrest warrant ("EAW") |
| ECRIS-TCN | ECRIS-TCN (European Criminal Records Information System - third-country nationals) is a centralised system that allows Member State's authorities to identify which other Member States hold criminal records on the third country nationals or stateless persons being checked, so that they can then use the existing ECRIS system to address requests for conviction information only to the identified Member States. |
| EDPS | European Data Protection Supervisor |
| EES data | All data stored in the EES Central System and in the CIR. |
| EES website | An information website to the third-country nationals. The third-country nationals must be informed that when they do not fulfil the conditions of authorised stay, the EES will automatically add their data in a list of overstayers. The third-country nationals should also be informed about the consequences of overstaying by the border guards directly, in the EES website and/or through other relevant channels. |
| EES-VIS interoperability | The personal data of third-country nationals subject to a visa requirement may be retrieved from the VIS and imported into the EES. The retrieval of visa-related data, their importation into the EES and the updating of data from the VIS in the EES shall be an automated process (using EES-VIS interoperability) once the operation in question is launched. |
| Electronic Machine Readable Travel Document (eMRTD) | An electronic Machine Readable Travel Document (eMRTD) (passport, visa or card) that has a contactless integrated circuit embedded in it and the capability of being used for biometric identification of the MRTD holder, in accordance with the specified standards. This information can be consulted in the following link: Documents_9303_p1_cons_en.pdf |
| Electronically signed | The confirmation of agreement through the ticking of an appropriate box in the application form or the request for consent. |