Glossary

The MID creates a link between two identity groups. The identities stored within those linked identity groups are called participants (because they participate in the link).  

A travel document entitling the holder to cross the external borders and to which a visa may be affixed.

A person in transit, in principle, does not need to be submitted to a border check and his/her data to be inserted in the EES. He/she has a connection flight through the area of a Member State, with an entry and exit, and does not stay in a Schengen area (the person stays in a secure zone and does not leave the international area).

A breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.

Persons enjoying the right of free movement under Union law means: 

• Union citizens within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU, and third-country nationals who are members of the family of a Union citizen exercising his or her right to free movement to whom Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council applies; 
• Third-country nationals and their family members, whatever their nationality, who, under agreements between the Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and those third countries, on the other hand, enjoy rights of free movement equivalent to those of Union citizens.

Person's registration number in a national register. The person’s registration number may only be added to alerts on persons issued in accordance with SIS Regulation (EU) 2018/1862.

‘police authority’ means the competent authority as defined in point (7) of Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2016/680:

(a) any public authority competent for the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security; or

(b) any other body or entity entrusted by Member State law to exercise public authority and public powers for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security.

Where a third-country national uses a Self-Service System (SSS) for the pre-enrolment of data, the third-country national may pre-enrol the individual file data or, if applicable, pre-enrol the data in the entry/exit record that need to be updated. The data shall be confirmed by the border authorities when the decision to authorise or to refuse entry has been taken.

Any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

All the procedures for examining and taking a decision on applications for asylum, including measures taken under a final decision thereon, with the exception of the determination of the Contracting Party responsible for processing applications for asylum pursuant to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement (Schengen acquis).