Glossary

The judicial authority of the European Union, which ensures in cooperation with the courts and tribunals of the EU Member States the uniform application and interpretation of European Union law, and which settles legal disputes between national governments and EU institutions.

In the absence of a previous registration of a third-country national in the EES, the border authority shall create an individual file of that third-country national by entering the data referred to in Articles 16(1) and (6), 17(1) and 18(1) of the EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 as applicable.

A third-country national stay may be extended pursuant to a bilateral agreement, if that third-country national presents credible evidence, which proves that during that time he/she stayed only on the territory of that Contracting Party and that he/she is exiting the territory from that Contracting Party.

The national register or registers recording convictions in accordance with national law.

The EES Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 applies to third-country nationals admitted for a short stay to the territory of the Member States who are subject to border checks in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/399 when crossing the borders at which the EES is operated.

The central repository for reporting and statistics (CRRS) is established for the purposes of supporting the objectives of the EES, VIS, ETIAS, SIS, Eurodac and ECRIS-TCN in accordance with the respective legal instruments governing those systems, and to provide cross-system statistical data and analytical reporting for policy, operational and data quality purposes.

A ship which follows a given itinerary in accordance with a predetermined programme, which includes a programme of tourist activities in the various ports, and which normally neither takes passengers on nor allows passengers to disembark during the voyage.

Central System - Schengen Information System. Technical support function of the Central SIS, composed of:

(i) a technical support function (‘CS-SIS’) containing a database, (the ‘SIS database’), and including a backup CS-SIS,

(ii) a uniform national interface (‘NI-SIS’).

Data on fingerprints and palm prints which due to their unique character and the reference points contained therein enable accurate and conclusive comparisons on a person's identity. Also, fingerprint images, images of fingerprint latents, palm prints, palm print latents and templates of such images (coded minutiae) fall under this term when they are stored and dealt with in an automated database. Which type of Dactyloscopic data is stored depends on the rules applicable to each EU information system. 

Determines the purposes for which and the means by which personal data is processed. The data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests.