- administrative personal data
means personal data processed by Europol other than operational personal data;
- category of transfers of personal data
means a group of transfers of personal data where the data relate to the same specific situation, and where the transfers consist of the same categories of personal data and the same categories of data subjects;
- data subject
means an identified or identifiable natural person, an identifiable person being a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person;
- genetic data
means all personal data relating to the genetic characteristics of an individual that have been inherited or acquired, which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that individual, resulting in particular from an analysis of a biological sample from the individual in question;
- immigration liaison officer
means an immigration liaison officer as defined in Article 2, point (1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1240 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
- international organisation
means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries;
- investigative data
means data that a Member State, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’) established by Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, Eurojust or a third country is authorised to process in an ongoing criminal investigation related to one or more Member States, in accordance with procedural requirements and safeguards applicable under Union or national law, that a Member State, the EPPO, Eurojust or a third country submitted to Europol in support of such an ongoing criminal investigation and that contain personal data that do not relate to the categories of data subjects listed in Annex II;
- online child sexual abuse material
means online material constituting child pornography as defined in Article 2, point (c), of Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council or pornographic performance as defined in Article 2, point (e), of that Directive;
- online crisis situation
means the dissemination of online content stemming from an ongoing or recent real world event which depicts harm to life or to physical integrity, or calls for imminent harm to life or to physical integrity, and aims to or has the effect of seriously intimidating a population, provided that there is a link, or a reasonable suspicion of a link, to terrorism or violent extremism and that the potential exponential multiplication and virality of that content across multiple online services are anticipated;
- operational analysis
means all methods and techniques by which information is collected, stored, processed and assessed with the aim of supporting criminal investigations;
- personal data
means any information relating to a data subject;
- personal data breach
means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
- private parties
means entities and bodies established under the law of a Member State or third country, in particular companies and firms, business associations, non-profit organisations and other legal persons that are not covered by point (e);
- private persons
means all natural persons;
- processing
means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
- recipient
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body to which data are disclosed, whether a third party or not;
- research and innovation projects
means projects regarding matters covered by this Regulation for the development, training, testing and validation of algorithms for the development of specific tools, and other specific research and innovation projects relevant for the achievement of Europol’s objectivexs;
- SIENA
means the Secure Information Exchange Network Application, managed by Europol, which facilitates the exchange of information;
- strategic analysis
means all methods and techniques by which information is collected, stored, processed and assessed with the aim of supporting and developing a criminal policy that contributes to the efficient and effective prevention of, and the fight against, crime;
- terrorist content
means terrorist content as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2021/784 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- the competent authorities of the Member States
means all police authorities and other law enforcement services existing in the Member States which are responsible under national law for preventing and combating criminal offences.
- transfer of personal data
means the communication of personal data, actively made available, between a limited number of identified parties, with the knowledge or intention of the sender to give the recipient access to the personal data;
- Union bodies
means institutions, bodies, missions, offices and agencies set up by, or on the basis of, the TEU and the TFEU;