Article 2 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1409

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Article 2Definitions#

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:

(1)‘carrier interface’ means the web service to be developed by eu-LISA in accordance with Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 where used for the purposes of Article 13(3) of that Regulation and the carrier gateway referred in Article 45c(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 and consisting of an IT interface connected to a read-only database;

(2)‘technical guidelines’ means the part of the technical specifications, referred to in Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 that is relevant for carriers for the implementation of the authentication scheme and the development of the message format of the Application Programming Interface referred to in Article 4(2), point (a) of this Regulation;

(3)‘duly authorised staff’ means employees of or contractually engaged by the carrier or by other legal or natural persons acting under that carrier’s direction or supervision, assigned with the tasks of verifying whether the number of entries authorised by a visa has already been used on behalf of the carrier, in accordance with Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 and as from the start of operations of the Visa Information System, to verify whether third-country nationals who are subject to a short-stay visa or who are required to hold a long-stay visa, the airport transit visa or a residence permit are in possession of a valid short-stay visa, long-stay visa, airport transit visa or a residence permit, as applicable, in accordance with Article 45c(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008.

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carrier interface
means the web service to be developed by eu-LISA in accordance with Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 where used for the purposes of Article 13(3) of that Regulation and the carrier gateway referred in Article 45c(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 and consisting of an IT interface connected to a read-only database;
duly authorised staff
means employees of or contractually engaged by the carrier or by other legal or natural persons acting under that carrier’s direction or supervision, assigned with the tasks of verifying whether the number of entries authorised by a visa has already been used on behalf of the carrier, in accordance with Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 and as from the start of operations of the Visa Information System, to verify whether third-country nationals who are subject to a short-stay visa or who are required to hold a long-stay visa, the airport transit visa or a residence permit are in possession of a valid short-stay visa, long-stay visa, airport transit visa or a residence permit, as applicable, in accordance with Article 45c(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008.
technical guidelines
means the part of the technical specifications, referred to in Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 that is relevant for carriers for the implementation of the authentication scheme and the development of the message format of the Application Programming Interface referred to in Article 4(2), point (a) of this Regulation;