applicant for asylum — an alien who has made an application for asylum or on whose behalf such an application has been made (b)

hit — the existence of a match or matches established by the Central Unit by comparison between fingerprint data recorded in the databank and those transmitted by a Member State with regard to a person, without prejudice to the requirement that Member States shall immediately check the results of the comparison pursuant to Article 4(6) (e)

Member State of origin — in relation to an applicant for asylum, the Member State which transmits the personal data to the Central Unit and receives the results of the comparison; in relation to a person covered by Article 8, the Member State which transmits the personal data to the Central Unit; in relation to a person covered by Article 11, the Member State which transmits such data to the Central Unit and receives the results of the comparison (c)

refugee — a person who has been recognised as a refugee in accordance with the Geneva Convention on Refugees of 28 July 1951, as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967 (d)

the Dublin Convention — the Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities, signed at Dublin on 15 June 1990 (a)