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1. Only the following data shall be recorded in Eurodac in accordance with Article 3(2): (a) fingerprint data; (b) a facial image; (c) surname(s) and forename(s), name(s) at birth and previously used names and any aliases, which may be entered separately; (d) nationality(ies); (e) date of birth; (f) place of birth; (g) Member State of […]
1. For law enforcement purposes, designated authorities may submit a reasoned electronic request for the comparison of biometric or alphanumeric data with the data stored in Eurodac within the scope of their powers only where all of the following conditions have been met: (a) a prior check has been conducted in: (i) national databases; and […]
1. Personal data obtained by a Member State or by Europol from Eurodac pursuant to this Regulation shall not be transferred or made available to any third country, international organisation or private entity established in or outside the Union. That prohibition shall also apply if those data are further processed within the meaning of Article […]
In order to apply efficiently, it is necessary to allow each Member State to check whether a third-country national or a stateless person has been granted international protection or humanitarian status under national law in accordance with that Regulation by another Member State or has been admitted to the territory of a Member State in […]
For that purpose, it is also necessary to clearly record in Eurodac the fact that an application for international protection has been rejected where the third-country national or stateless person has no right to remain and has not been allowed to remain in accordance with .
With a view to ensuring equal treatment for all applicants and beneficiaries of international protection, as well as in order to ensure consistency with the current Union asylum acquis, in particular with Regulations , and , this Regulation includes in its scope applicants for subsidiary protection and persons eligible for subsidiary protection.
Where detention is used in order to determine or verify a third-country national’s or stateless person’s identity, it should only be used by Member States as a means of last resort and in full respect of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and in compliance with relevant Union law, […]
It is necessary to designate the competent authorities of the Member States as well as the National Access Point through which the requests for comparison with Eurodac data are made and to keep a list of the operating units within the designated authorities that are authorised to request such comparison for the specific purposes of […]
By way of derogation from the rule that no personal data obtained by a Member State pursuant to this Regulation should be transferred or made available to any third country, it should be possible to transfer such personal data to a third country where such a transfer is subject to strict conditions and is necessary […]
1. For the purposes of this Regulation: (a) ‘applicant for international protection’ means a third-country national or a stateless person who has made an application for international protection as defined in Article 3, point (7), of in respect of which a final decision has not yet been taken; (b) ‘person registered for the purpose of […]
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