Glossary
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| True positive match | The proportion of returned matches during a biometric search which belong to the checked traveller. |
| Type of offence | When a person or object is connected to a criminal offence, it is also required to add the ‘type of offence’ to the alert. This is mainly relevant for alerts for arrest (where it is mandatory) and alerts for discreet checks, inquiry checks or specific checks (where it is not strictly mandatory but should be added when available). This should also be done for alerts for refusal of entry and stay and alerts on return based on a criminal offence. |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UK Withdrawal Agreement | The UK residents in the Schengen Area before Brexit are beneficiaries of the UK Withdrawal Agreement since they may have specific documents to show their residence status. The UK Withdrawal Agreement’s beneficiaries are exempt from EES registration. The persons from the UK who have not yet applied or finalised the necessary paper work could provide alternative proofs to the border guard (registration certificate of the commune). |
| UN | United Nations |
| UN travel ban | United Nations travel ban, its purpose is to limit the mobility of listed individuals. |
| Unaccompanied children or unaccompanied minor | Who arrives on the territory of an EU Member unaccompanied by the adult responsible for them by law or by the practice of the EU Member State concerned, and for as long as they are not effectively taken into the care of such a person or who is left unaccompanied after they have entered the territory of the EU Member State. |
| Unforeseeable and serious events | A third-country national can bring evidence that was forced to exceed the duration of authorised stay due to unforeseeable and serious events. However, those events only would be acceptable under circumstances which are not within the reach of the third-country national, i.e. force majeure (e.g. accident implying hospitalization, serious illness or injury, medical appointment; judicial decision; impediment due to natural causes; infectious diseases; revolutions and wars; strikes in airplanes, buses, trains, cancellation of a travel, etc.). |
| Union citizen | Any person holding the nationality of a Member State. |
| United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under national legislation. Nations that have ratified this convention or have acceded to it are bound by international law. When a state has signed the treaty but not ratified it, it is not yet bound by the treaty's provisions but is already obliged to not act contrary to its purpose. |