Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| law enforcement access | The procedure to query the CIR for the purposes of preventing, detecting or investigating terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences. |
| Law Enforcement Authority (LEA) | An authority entitled to consult the data stored in the EES in order to prevent, detect and/or investigate terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences, including Europol, Member State designated authorities and Central Access Point(s) of the Member State. |
| Limited Territorial Validity (LTV) | The issue of a travel authorisation with limited territorial validity (LTV) on humanitarian grounds, for reasons of national interest or because of international obligations. |
| link proposals | Connections between an individual's identity data among different EU information systems participating in a MID link. |
| linked data | Identity, travel document and biometric data stored in the CIR linked by a MID link. |
| linking of alerts | SIS enables the grouping of two or more alerts into a ‘link’ to indicate operational connections between them, without changing their content or any access rights related to them. |
| List of persons | The data of the third-country national identified as overstayer shall be automatically added to a list of persons identified as overstayers in the EES. Such list shall be available to the competent national authorities in order to enable those authorities to adopt appropriate measures. |
| Lodging an application | When a third-country national with or without an individual file lodges an international protection application at the Border Crossing Point (BCP) or on the on the Member State territory. |
| long-stay visa | Visa for a stay exceeding three months are national visas issued by one of the Member States in accordance with its national law or Union law. |
| LSV | Long-stay Visa |