Glossary

An administrative or judicial decision or act, stating or declaring the stay of a third-country national to be illegal and imposing or stating an obligation to return.

Commission Recommendation (EU) 2017/2338 of 16 November 2017 establishing a common ‘Return Handbook’ to be used by Member States' competent authorities when carrying out return-related tasks

The data to be added where an authorisation for short stay or visa is revoked, meaning that is no longer effective.

Radio Frequency Identification 

The EES is not applicable to third-country nationals exercising their right to mobility:

• Third-country nationals and of their family members in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer;
• Third-country nationals, and where applicable their family members, for the purpose of research, studies, training or voluntary service in the European Voluntary Service, and where Member States so decide, pupil exchange schemes or educational projects, voluntary service other than the European Voluntary Service or au pairing.

The third-country nationals have the right to an effective remedy, having the right to bring an action or a complaint before the competent authorities or courts of that Member State which refused the right of access to, or right of rectification, completion or erasure of data. It also applies in cases where requests for access, rectification, completion or erasure were not responded to within the deadlines or were never dealt with by the Data Controller.

Residence Permit