Article 1 · Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1065

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For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions apply::

(a)‘entity’ means either a Member State or Europol;

(b)‘requesting entity’ means a Member State or Europol that initiates a query;

(c)‘requested entity’ means a Member State that receives a search;

(d)‘transaction’ means one query, converted into one or several searches and its corresponding results;

(e)‘query’ means the input initiated and sent by a requesting entity to the query service deployed in its own infrastructure;

(f)‘search’ means a message sent by the query service of a requesting entity to the search service of requested entities to retrieve a list of results;

(g)‘result’ means the information sent from the search service of a requested entity to the query service of a requesting entity following a search, indicating either a match, including its related details, or a no-match outcome;

(h)‘response’ means the aggregation of all results related to a query;

(i)‘query service’ means a micro-service to query entities;

(j)‘search service’ means a micro-service to manage and search the index(es).