inconsistency

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.