Eurodac Regulation – Page 5 – EU Migration Pact information

Eurodac Regulation:
Article 46 – Cooperation between national supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor

1. In accordance with Article 62 of , the national supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor shall, each acting within the scope of their respective competences, cooperate actively in the framework of their responsibilities and ensure the coordinated supervision of Eurodac. 2. Member States shall ensure that every year an audit of the […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Article 62 – Repeal

Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (38) is repealed with effect from 12 June 2026. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II. 38. Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 2

For the purpose of applying of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), it is necessary to establish the identity of applicants for international protection and of persons apprehended in connection with the irregular crossing of the external borders of the Member States. In order to apply that Regulation effectively, it is also desirable […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 18

In its communication of 13 May 2015 entitled ‘A European Agenda on Migration’, the Commission noted that Member States must also implement fully the rules on taking migrants’ fingerprints at the borders, and further proposed that it will also explore how more biometric identifiers, such as using facial recognition techniques through digital photos, can be […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 34

Although the original purpose of the establishment of Eurodac did not require the possibility of requesting comparisons of data with the database on the basis of a latent fingerprint, which is the dactyloscopic trace which may be found at a crime scene, such a feature is fundamental in the field of police cooperation. The possibility […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 50

The fact that it is temporarily or permanently impossible to take or to transmit the biometric data of a person, due to, inter alia, insufficient quality of the data for appropriate comparison, technical problems, reasons linked to the protection of health or the data subject being unfit or unable to have his or her biometric […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 66

It is appropriate to store data relating to those data subjects whose biometric data were recorded in Eurodac upon making or registering their applications for international protection and who have been granted international protection in a Member State in order to make it possible for data recorded upon registering or making another application for international […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 82

Data subjects should have the right of access to, and rectification and erasure of, personal data concerning them and the right of restriction of the processing thereof. Taking into account the purposes for which the data are processed, data subjects should have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 98

In accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol No 22 on the position of Denmark, annexed to the and to the , Denmark is not taking part in the adoption of this Regulation and is not bound by it or subject to its application.

Eurodac Regulation:
Article 15 – Collection and transmission of biometric data

1. Each Member State shall take, in accordance with Article 13(2), the biometric data of every applicant for international protection of at least six years of age: (a) upon the registration of the application for international protection referred to in Article 27 of and transmit them, as soon as possible and no later than 72 […]