Glossary

Interpol Travel Documents Associated with Notices (TDAWN).

From a technical point of view, SIS consists of three components: 

1) a central system managed by eu-LISA;

2) national systems managed by the N.SIS Office of each Member State using SIS; 

3) a secure communication infrastructure (network) managed by eu-LISA that enables Member States and agencies to transmit and search for SIS data and to exchange supplementary information.

An offence under national law which corresponds or is equivalent to one of the offences referred to in the legal basis (Directive (EU) 2017/54).

Third-country national: any person who is not a citizen of the Union, with the exception of persons who enjoy the right of free movement equivalent to that of Union citizens under agreements between the Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and third countries, on the other.

The competent authorities can refuse entry of the third-country national at the border if he/she is considered to be a threat to public policy, internal security, public health or the international relations of one or more of the Member States of the European Union (each state must indicate the references to national law).

Must be followed the transitional measures to be applied during the transitional period (as per the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, Article 22). Therefore, the competent border authorities shall take into account the stays in the territory of the Member States during the 180 days preceding the entry or the exit by checking the stamps in the travel documents. Where a third-country national has entered the territory of the Member States before the EES has started operations and exits it after the EES has started operations, an individual file shall be created on exit and the date of entry as stamped in the passport shall be entered in the entry/exit record, This rule shall not be limited to the 180 days after the EES has started operations. In case of a discrepancy between the entry stamp and the EES data, the stamp shall prevail.

A period of 180 days after the EES has started operations. During this period, in order to verify, on entry and exit, that third-country nationals admitted for a short stay have not exceeded the maximum duration of authorised stay and, where relevant, to verify on entry that third-country nationals have not exceeded the number of entries authorised by the short-stay visa issued for one or two entries, the competent border authorities shall take into account the stays in the territory of the Member States during the 180 days preceding the entry or the exit by checking the stamps in the travel documents in addition to the entry/exit data recorded in the EES.

A decision issued in accordance with the ETIAS Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 which is required for third-country nationals (referred to in Article 2(1) of this Regulation) to fulfil the entry condition.

Travel document means a passport or other equivalent document entitling the holder to cross the external borders and to which a visa can be affixed.

Travel document data means the type, number and country of issuance of the travel document, the date of expiry of the validity of the travel document and the three-letter code of the country issuing the travel document.