central systemmeans a trans-European system developed at Union level consisting of common components which are available for all Member States and which do not necessitate the creation of a national component;
common componentmeans a component of the electronic systems developed at Union level which is available for all Member States or identified as common by the Commission for reasons of efficiency, security, and rationalisation;
data miningmeans the analysis of large volumes of data in digital form by any analytical technique to generate information which includes patterns, trends and correlations to mitigate risks and enable informed decision-making based on human intervention;
decentralised systemmeans a trans-European system consisting of common and national components based on common specifications;
national componentmeans a component of the electronic systems developed at national level which is available in the Member State that created such component or contributed to its joint creation;
trans-European systemmeans a collection of collaborating systems with responsibilities distributed across the national administrations and the Commission and developed in cooperation with the Commission;
Union representativesmeans the Union representatives as referred to in Article 12(2) of the Windsor Framework.