Regulation (EU) 2019/816

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

means an authority designated in accordance with Article 3(1) of Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA;

means the database or databases developed and maintained by eu-LISA which hold identity information on third-country nationals who have been subject to convictions in the Member States;

means the common identity repository established by Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818;

means the central authorities, Eurojust, Europol, the EPPO, the VIS designated authorities as referred to in Article 9d and Article 22b(13) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, the ETIAS Central Unit and the screening authorities as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1356, which are competent to access or query ECRIS-TCN in accordance with this Regulation;

means the Member State in which a conviction is handed down;

means any final decision of a criminal court against a natural person in respect of a criminal offence, to the extent that the decision is entered in the criminal records of the convicting Member State;

means the pre-trial stage, the trial stage and the execution of the conviction;

means the national register or registers recording convictions in accordance with national law;

means the European search portal established by Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818.

means a digital image of a person's face;

means the data relating to plain and rolled impressions of the fingerprints of each of a person's fingers;

means a match or matches established by comparison between identity information recorded in the central system and the identity information used for a search;

means alphanumeric data, fingerprint data and facial images that are used to establish a connection between these data and a natural person;

means the software hosted by the competent authorities allowing them to access the central system through the communication infrastructure referred to in point (d) of Article 4(1);

means the national connection point to the communication infrastructure referred to in point (d) of Article 4(1);

means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to applicable Union data protection rules;

means the European Data Protection Supervisor and the national supervisory authorities;

means a person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU, or who is a stateless person or a person whose nationality is unknown;