Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| secondary movements | The phenomenon of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, who for various reasons move from the country in which they first arrived, to seek protection or permanent resettlement elsewhere. |
| Security Plan | The security plan facilitates the implementation of the security obligations necessary to ensure the security of an EU information system. Each Regulation establishing an EU information system has provisions on the requirements of a security plan for Member States and eu-LISA to take. |
| Security risk | The risk of a threat to public policy, internal security or international relations for any of the Member States. |
| seizure order | A seizure (or freezing) order is a temporary measure ordered by a competent authority to prevent the destruction, transformation, removal, transfer or disposal of an object (property) in view of further measures, for example confiscation of proceeds or instrumentalities of crime. |
| Self-service System (SSS) | An automated system which performs all or some of the border checks that are applicable to a person and which may be used for pre-enrolling data in the EES. |
| Shared Biometric Matching Service (sBMS) | Shared Biometric Matching Service (sBMS): a service for storing biometric templates obtained from the biometric data that are stored in the CIR and SIS and enabling querying with biometric data across several EU information systems. |
| Short stay | Stay on the territory of the Member States for a duration of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. |
| Short-stay visa | The authorisation or decision of an EU Member State with a view to transit through or an intended stay on the territory of one or more or all the EU Member States of a duration of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. |
| similar identity data | Identity data are considered similar if the values in corresponding data fields between different EU information systems are considered almost identical, subject to the rules described in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/332 and 2023/333. E.g. last name: 'Smith' corresponding with last name: 'Smieth'. In contrast: |
| SIN | Single identification number (‘SIN’): Number allowing loading of the linked data from the corresponding EU information systems. |