Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Quality thresholds of facial image (FI) | The quality of the facial images (FI), including near infrared ones, shall comply with the thresholds specified in the technical specifications (referred to in Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226) and with the image requirements of ISO/IEC 19794-5:2011 Frontal image type. For more information consult the following link: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:19794:-5:ed-2:v1:en |
| Quality thresholds of fingerprints | At the moment of enrolment, the version 2.0 (or newer version, as per the Biometrics' CID) of the Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) metric defined by the NIST shall be used for verifying that the quality of the captured fingerprint data respects the thresholds that shall be specified in the technical specifications (referred to in Article 37(1) of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226). |
| reason for the alert | Describes, in a structured way, why the person or object is sought. |
| Reasons for refusal | The reasons for refusal of entry at the border, based on which the competent authorities can refuse the entry of a third-country national for a short stay on the territory of the Member States. The reasons are present in the ‘Standard form for refusal of entry at the border’ (SBC Regulation (EU) 2016/399, Part A). |
| Rebuttal | Related with the procedures to rebut the presumption that a third-country national does not fulfil the conditions of duration of authorised stay, as per the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 (Article 20, ‘Data to be added in case of rebuttal of the presumption that a third-country national does not fulfil the conditions of duration of authorised stay’). |
| Recipient | A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing. |
| rectification of a link | Rectification (of a link): rectification means choosing another colour of the link for which the criteria are met. |
| red link | Red refers to the colour of a link. A red link means that after manual verification the responsible authority concluded that data belongs to the same person in an unjustified manner (merging red link) or to two different persons in an unjustified manner (non-merging red links). |
| Refugee | A third-country national or a stateless person who fulfils the requirements of Article 2(d) of Directive 2011/95/EU. |
| Refusal of entry | In case the border authority takes the decision to refuse entry to a third-country national admitted for a short stay to the territory of the Member States who does not fulfil all the entry conditions (as defined in the Schengen Borders Code), and does not belong to the category of persons who are exempt from fulfilling the entry conditions, then the border authority inserts the decision in the EES and the reasons therefor. |