Glossary

When the Member State has evidence to suggest that data recorded in the EES are inaccurate or incomplete or that data were processed in the EES in breach of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, it shall be rectified, completed, or erased.

If the Member State responsible has evidence to suggest that data recorded in the EES are factually incomplete or that data were processed in the EES in breach of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, it shall check the data concerned.

Inconsistency means that information that suppose to be consistent are not. Inconsistency can happen at two levels: 

- Inconsistency in the CIR & MID means that the MID refuses the end user to choose a certain colour of a link due to the pre-existence of other coloured links, e.g. when an authority is manually verifying a yellow link and wants to turn it into a colour that is inconsistent with other related MID links (i.e. stating that it is the same and a different person at the same time); in this case the steps described in Inconsistencies and Discrepancies and Manual Verification of a MID Yellow Link need to be followed. After applying these procedures the responsible authority re-tries to change the link colour.

- Inconsistency in an EU information system means that the choice of colour might indicate an inconsistency in the data stored in the EU information systems.

The third-country national’s traveller data should be included in the EES (identity data, travel document data and biometric data). The individual file is also called EES file or EES Traveller File.

The “Information for third-country national whose data is recorded in the EES" is based on a template, to be prepared by the Commission, as follows:

• The generic information must be provided in writing, by any appropriate means – can be on a screen, or as a poster, and a QR code is an option as well; last, the information will be available also on the EES web service.
• The template will be translated into all the EU languages. Furthermore, it is under consideration to translate it into a few other major (non-EU) languages.
• The Commission shall provide the minimum content of the information that need to be shared with the Member State, and then with the third-country nationals. The useful contacts shall be defined at national level (except for the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), filled by the Commission).

The EES shall include a mechanism that shall automatically identify which entry/exit records do not have exit data immediately following the date of expiry of an authorised stay and automatically identify records for which the maximum duration of authorised stay was exceeded.

In case the third-country national benefits from a national facilitation programme (NFP) of a Member State, the Member State responsible shall insert a notification in the individual file of the third-country national specifying the national facilitation programme of the Member State concerned, with the following attributes: Establishing Member State, Name and Valid Until.

Internal borders means: 

• The common land borders, including river and lake borders, of the Member States; 
• The airports of the Member States for internal flights; 
• Sea, river and lake ports of the Member States for regular internal ferry connections.

Any flight exclusively to or from the territories of the Member States and not landing in the territory of a third country.

Any illnesses or medical conditions, irrespective of origin or source, that present or could present significant harm to humans. Threats to global public health security can be traced to one or more causes (natural, environmental, industrial, accidental or deliberate but - more often than not - they are related to human behaviour). For more information consult the following link: international-health-regulations.