Glossary

The facial image shall have sufficient image resolution and quality to be used in the automated biometric matching. The fingerprint data from the right hand, where present, and otherwise the corresponding fingerprint data from the left hand, shall have sufficient resolution and quality to be used in the automated biometric matching.

A system which allows for an automated border crossing, and which is composed of a self-service system and an e-gate.

The EES shall include an automated calculator that indicates the maximum duration of authorised stay for third-country nationals registered in the EES.

The application files shall be automatically processed by the ETIAS Central System to identify hit(s). The ETIAS Central System shall examine each application file individually.

Each set of binary data (photographs, dactyloscopic data, identification documents, scanned documents, DNA profiles) attached to a SIS alert.

Means the alphanumeric data stored in the EES, concerning the travel document data and/or the identity data.

A biographic matching error can occur in the following cases: 

•    Automatic comparison concluded same identity data, while in fact it is similar identity data or different identity data; 

•    Automatic comparison concluded similar identity data, while in fact it is same identity data or different identity data;

•    Automatic comparison concluded different identity data, while in fact it is same identity data or similar identity data.

‘biometric data’ means fingerprint data or facial images or both.

A biometric false acceptance means that the MID falsely declared a match towards the biometric template of another person.

A biometric false rejection means that the MID falsely declared that there is no match with another comparable biometric template of the same person.