Glossary

International Civil Aviation Organization

Interface Control Document

Identity Confirmation File

The process of determining a person’s identity through a database search against multiple sets of data (one-to-many check).

Identity Confirmation File (‘ICF’) consists of:

- the MID link (including its colour);

- a reference to the EU information systems in which the linked data are held (including the name of the system and the ‘record identifier’);

- a single identification number (‘SIN’) allowing loading of the linked data from the corresponding EU information systems;

- the authority responsible for the manual verification of the yellow link; 

- the date of creation of the link or of any update to it

Each EU information system stores identities which it decided belong to the same person in one group. Those groups are called identity groups (IGs). An identity can consist of the combination of identity data data (e.g. first name, last name), travel document data and biometric data. 

An example would be two visa applications of the same person that are stored in one identity group.

Identity Group

The risk of a third-country national not fulfilling the conditions of entry and stay (as set out in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399).

The presence on the territory of a Member State of a third-country national who does not fulfil, or no longer fulfils the conditions of entry (as set out in Article 5 of the Schengen Borders Code) or other conditions for entry, stay or residence in that Member State.

Primary responsibility for implementing EU law lies with EU countries. However, in areas where uniform conditions for implementation are needed, the Commission (or exceptionally the Council) adopts an implementing act (IA). The EES' implementing acts are adopted by the Commission (as per the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, Article 36) describing specific measures (e.g. specifications for the quality, resolution and use of fingerprints for biometric verification and identification in the EES).