Glossary

Identity Confirmation File (‘ICF’) consists of:

- the MID link (including its colour);

- a reference to the EU information systems in which the linked data are held (including the name of the system and the ‘record identifier’);

- a single identification number (‘SIN’) allowing loading of the linked data from the corresponding EU information systems;

- the authority responsible for the manual verification of the yellow link; 

- the date of creation of the link or of any update to it

Each EU information system stores identities which it decided belong to the same person in one group. Those groups are called identity groups (IGs). An identity can consist of the combination of identity data data (e.g. first name, last name), travel document data and biometric data. 

An example would be two visa applications of the same person that are stored in one identity group.

Identity Group

The risk of a third-country national not fulfilling the conditions of entry and stay (as set out in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399).

The presence on the territory of a Member State of a third-country national who does not fulfil, or no longer fulfils the conditions of entry (as set out in Article 5 of the Schengen Borders Code) or other conditions for entry, stay or residence in that Member State.

Primary responsibility for implementing EU law lies with EU countries. However, in areas where uniform conditions for implementation are needed, the Commission (or exceptionally the Council) adopts an implementing act (IA). The EES' implementing acts are adopted by the Commission (as per the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, Article 36) describing specific measures (e.g. specifications for the quality, resolution and use of fingerprints for biometric verification and identification in the EES).

When the Member State has evidence to suggest that data recorded in the EES are inaccurate or incomplete or that data were processed in the EES in breach of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, it shall be rectified, completed, or erased.

If the Member State responsible has evidence to suggest that data recorded in the EES are factually incomplete or that data were processed in the EES in breach of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, it shall check the data concerned.

Inconsistency means that information that suppose to be consistent are not. Inconsistency can happen at two levels: 

- Inconsistency in the CIR & MID means that the MID refuses the end user to choose a certain colour of a link due to the pre-existence of other coloured links, e.g. when an authority is manually verifying a yellow link and wants to turn it into a colour that is inconsistent with other related MID links (i.e. stating that it is the same and a different person at the same time); in this case the steps described in Inconsistencies and Discrepancies and Manual Verification of a MID Yellow Link need to be followed. After applying these procedures the responsible authority re-tries to change the link colour.

- Inconsistency in an EU information system means that the choice of colour might indicate an inconsistency in the data stored in the EU information systems.

The third-country national’s traveller data should be included in the EES (identity data, travel document data and biometric data). The individual file is also called EES file or EES Traveller File.