Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 (VIS Regulation)

means data represented by letters, digits, special characters, spaces and punctuation marks;

means any person subject to the visa requirement pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15 March 2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement, who has lodged an application for a visa;

means the uniform application form for visas in Annex 16 to the Common Consular Instructions;

means the data relating to the five fingerprints of the index, middle finger, ring finger, little finger and the thumb from the right hand and, where present, from the left hand.

means applicants who are obliged for legal reasons to enter and leave the territory of the Member States together;

means the process of determining a person's identity through a database search against multiple sets of data (one-to-many check);

means the data referred to in Article 9(4)(a) and (aa);

means the Member State which has entered the data in the VIS;

means a passport or other equivalent document entitling the holder to cross the external borders and to which a visa may be affixed;

means the process of comparison of sets of data to establish the validity of a claimed identity (one-to-one check);

means:

means the authorities which in each Member State are responsible for examining and for taking decisions on visa applications or for decisions whether to annul, revoke or extend visas, including the central visa authorities and the authorities responsible for issuing visas at the border in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 415/2003 of 27 February 2003 on the issue of visas at the border, including the issue of such visas to seamen in transit;

means the uniform format for visas as defined by Regulation (EC) No 1683/95;