- additional data
means the data stored in SIS and connected with alerts in SIS which are to be immediately available to the competent authorities where a person in respect of whom data has been entered in SIS is located as a result of conducting a search in SIS;
- alert
means a set of data entered into SIS allowing the competent authorities to identify a person or an object with a view to taking specific action;
- biometric data
means personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical or physiological characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, namely photographs, facial images, dactyloscopic data and DNA profile;
- CIR
means the common identity repository established by Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818;
- dactyloscopic data
means 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;
- end-user
means a member of staff of a competent authority authorised to search directly CS-SIS, N.SIS or a technical copy thereof;
- ESP
means the European search portal established by Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- executing Member State
means the Member State which takes or has taken the required actions following a hit;
- facial image
means digital images of the face with sufficient image resolution and quality to be used in automated biometric matching;
- flag
means a suspension of the validity of an alert at the national level that may be added to alerts for arrest, alerts on missing and vulnerable persons, alerts for discreet, inquiry and specific checks and to information alerts;
- hit
means any match which fulfils the following criteria:
- issuing Member State
means the Member State which entered the alert into SIS;
- match
means the occurrence of the following steps:
- MID
means the multiple-identity detector established by Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818;
- personal data
means personal data as defined in point 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
- processing of personal data
means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, logging, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
- shared BMS
means the shared biometric matching service established by Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818;
- supplementary information
means information not forming part of the alert data stored in SIS, but connected to alerts in SIS, which is to be exchanged through the SIRENE Bureaux:
- terrorist offences
means offences under national law referred to in Articles 3 to 14 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council, or equivalent to one of those offences for the Member States which are not bound by that Directive;
- 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 are beneficiaries of the right of free movement within the Union in accordance with Directive 2004/38/EC or in accordance with an agreement between the Union or the Union and its Member States on the one hand, and a third country on the other hand.
- threat to public health
means a threat to public health as defined in point (21) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council;