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Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2017 establishing an Entry/Exit System (EES) to register entry and exit data and refusal of entry data of third-country nationals crossing the external borders of the Member States and determining the conditions for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes, and amending the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement and Regulations (EC) No 767/2008 and (EU) No 1077/2011 · European Union

Consultation of the EES for the purpose of identification as referred to in paragraph 2 shall be limited to searching in the individual file with any of the following EES data: fingerprints of visa-exempt third-country nationals or of holders of an FTD. In order to launch this consultation of the EES, latent fingerprints may be used and may therefore be compared with the fingerprints stored in the EES; facial images. Consultation of the EES, in the event of a hit, shall give access to any other data taken from the individual file as listed in Article 16(1) and (6), Article 17(1) and Article 18(1).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.