Definitions
Article 3
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘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; (2) ‘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: (a) in order to allow Member States to consult or inform each other when entering an alert; (b) following a hit in order to allow the appropriate action to be taken; (c) when the required action cannot be taken; (d) when dealing with the quality of SIS data; (e) when dealing with the compatibility and priority of alerts; (f) when dealing with rights of access; (3) ‘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; (4) ‘personal data’ means personal data as defined in point 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679; (5) ‘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; (6) a ‘match’ means the occurrence of the following steps: (a) a search has been conducted in SIS by an end-user; (b) that search has revealed an alert entered into SIS by another Member State; and (c) data concerning the alert in SIS match the search data; (7) a ‘hit’ means any match which fulfils the following criteria: (a) it has been confirmed by: (i) the end-user; or (ii) the competent authority in accordance with national procedures, where the match concerned was based on the comparison of biometric data; and (b) further actions are requested; (8) ‘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 and alerts for discreet, inquiry and specific checks; (9) ‘issuing Member State’ means the Member State which entered the alert into SIS; (10) ‘executing Member State’ means the Member State which takes or has taken the required actions following a hit; (11) ‘end-user’ means a member of staff of a competent authority authorised to search directly CS-SIS, N.SIS or a technical copy thereof; (12) ‘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; (13) ‘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; (14) ‘facial image’ means digital images of the face with sufficient image resolution and quality to be used in automated biometric matching; (15) ‘DNA profile’ means a letter or number code which represents a set of identification characteristics of the noncoding part of an analysed human DNA sample, namely the particular molecular structure at the various DNA locations (loci); (16) ‘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 ( 35 ) , or equivalent to one of those offences for the Member States which are not bound by that Directive; (17) ‘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 ( 36 ) .