Defined terms — Regulation (EU) 2019/816 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third-country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) to supplement the European Criminal Records Information System and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1726
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18 defined in this instrument.
alphanumeric data — data represented by letters, digits, special characters, spaces and punctuation marks (11)
central authority — an authority designated in accordance with Article 3(1) of Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA (5)
central system — the database or databases developed and maintained by eu-LISA which hold identity information on third-country nationals who have been subject to convictions in the Member States (8)
competent authorities — the central authorities and Eurojust, Europol and the EPPO, which are competent to access or query ECRIS-TCN in accordance with this Regulation (6)
convicting Member State — the Member State in which a conviction is handed down (4)
conviction — any final decision of a criminal court against a natural person in respect of a criminal offence, to the extent that the decision is entered in the criminal records of the convicting Member State (1)
criminal proceedings — the pre-trial stage, the trial stage and the execution of the conviction (2)
criminal record — the national register or registers recording convictions in accordance with national law (3)
ECRIS reference implementation — the software developed by the Commission and made available to the Member States for the exchange of criminal records information through ECRIS (16)
facial image — a digital image of a person's face (13)
fingerprint data — the data relating to plain and rolled impressions of the fingerprints of each of a person's fingers (12)
hit — a match or matches established by comparison between identity information recorded in the central system and the identity information used for a search (14)
identity information — alphanumeric data, fingerprint data and facial images that are used to establish a connection between these data and a natural person (10)
interface software — the software hosted by the competent authorities allowing them to access the central system through the communication infrastructure referred to in point (d) of Article 4(1) (9)
national central access point — the national connection point to the communication infrastructure referred to in point (d) of Article 4(1) (15)
national supervisory authority — an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to applicable Union data protection rules (17)
supervisory authorities — the European Data Protection Supervisor and the national supervisory authorities (18)
third-country national — a person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU, or who is a stateless person or a person whose nationality is unknown (7)