Data quality verification mechanism
Article 2a
1. When entering or modifying alphanumeric data, fingerprint data or facial images in ECRIS-TCN the central authority of the convicting Member State shall use a data quality verification mechanism or its equivalent in their national ECRIS implementation software referred to in Article 4(4) to (7) of Regulation (EU) 2019/816. 2. The data quality verification mechanism referred to in paragraph 1 shall be integrated into the ECRIS reference implementation, developed as a software application and established in the ECRIS-TCN central system. 3. eu-LISA shall be responsible for the development, maintenance and updating of the data quality verification mechanism, pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/816. 4. Where Member States do not make use of the data quality verification mechanism referred to in paragraph 1 and use instead its equivalent in their national ECRIS implementation software, they shall ensure that it guarantees the same alphanumeric data, fingerprints data and facial images quality verification as that data quality verification mechanism.