- alphanumeric data
means data represented by letters, digits, special characters, spaces and punctuation marks;
- authorised stay
means the exact number of days during which a third-country national is permitted to legally stay on the territory of the Member States, counting from the date of the entry in accordance with the applicable provisions;
- biometric data
means fingerprint data and facial image;
- border authority
means the border guard assigned in accordance with national law to carry out border checks as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- CIR
means the common identity repository established by Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817.
- designated authority
means an authority designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 29 as responsible for the prevention, detection or investigation of terrorist offences or of other serious criminal offences;
- e-gate
means an e-gate as defined in point 24 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- ESP
means the European search portal established by Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/817;
- eu-LISA
means the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale information systems in the area of freedom, security and justice established by Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011;
- external borders
means external borders as defined in point 2 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- facial image
means digital images of the face;
- Failure To Enrol Rate
(FTER) means the proportion of registrations with insufficient quality of the biometric enrolment;
- False Negative Identification Rate
(FNIR) means the proportion of missed matches during a biometric search even though the traveller’s biometric data were registered;
- False Positive Identification Rate
(FPIR) means the proportion of returned matches during a biometric search which do not belong to the checked traveller;
- fingerprint data
means the data relating to the four fingerprints of the index, middle finger, ring finger and little finger from the right hand where present, and otherwise from the left hand;
- identification
means the process of determining a person’s identity through a database search against multiple sets of data (one-to-many check);
- identity data
means the data referred to in point (a) of Article 16(1) as well as the relevant data referred to in Articles 17(1) and 18(1);
- immigration authority
means the competent authority responsible, in accordance with national law, for one or more of the following:
- internal borders
means internal borders as defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- law enforcement
means the prevention, detection or investigation of terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences;
- Member State responsible
means the Member State which has entered data in the EES;
- national short-stay visa
means an authorisation issued by a Member State which does not apply the Schengen acquis in full with a view to an intended stay on the territory of that Member State of a duration of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period;
- overstayer
means a third-country national who does not fulfil or no longer fulfils the conditions relating to the duration of his or her authorised short stay on the territory of the Member States;
- self-service system
means a self-service system as defined in point 23 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- serious criminal offence
means an offence which corresponds or is equivalent to one of the offences referred to in Article 2(2) of Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA, if it is punishable under national law by a custodial sentence or a detention order for a maximum period of at least three years;
- short stay
means stays on the territory of the Member States of a duration of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period as referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399;
- short-stay visa
means visa as defined in point (a) of point 2 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- supervisory authorities
means the supervisory authority established in accordance with Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the supervisory authority established in accordance with Article 41(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/680;
- terrorist offence
means an offence under national law which corresponds or is equivalent to one of the offences referred to in Directive (EU) 2017/541;
- third-country national
means any person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU, with the exception of persons who enjoy the right of free movement equivalent to that of Union citizens under agreements between the Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and third countries, on the other;
- travel document
means a passport or other equivalent document entitling the holder to cross the external borders and to which a visa may be affixed;
- verification
means the process of comparing sets of data to establish the validity of a claimed identity (one-to-one check);
- visa authority
means the visa authority as defined in point 3 of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008;