Fingerprint data – EU Migration Pact information

Eurodac Regulation:
Article 57 – Reports, monitoring and evaluation

1. shall submit to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the Commission and to the European Data Protection Supervisor an annual report on the activities of Eurodac, including on its technical functioning and security. The annual report shall include information on the management and performance of Eurodac against pre-defined quantitative indicators for the objectives […]

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 […]

Procedures Regulation:
Recital 100

Any personal data collected upon registration or lodging of an application for international protection and during the personal interview should be considered to be part of the applicant’s file and it should be kept for a sufficient number of years since third-country nationals or stateless persons who request international protection in one Member State may […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 19

For the purpose of obtaining a high level of accuracy of identification, fingerprints should always be preferred over facial images. To that end, Member States should exhaust all avenues for ensuring that fingerprints can be taken from the data subject before carrying out a comparison using exclusively a facial image. To assist Member States in […]

Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Recital 24

Any personal data of persons granted international protection or a national humanitarian status in accordance with this Regulation should be stored for five years from the date of registration at national level. That five-year period should be considered to be sufficient for the purposes of the admission procedure, given that the majority of such persons […]

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 49

Member States should ensure the transmission of biometric data of an appropriate quality for the purposes of comparison by means of the computerised fingerprint and facial recognition system. All authorities with a right of access to Eurodac should invest in adequate training and in the necessary technological equipment. The authorities with a right of access […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 51

Member States should take into account the Commission Staff Working Document on Implementation of the Eurodac Regulation as regards the obligation to take fingerprints, which the Council, on 20 July 2015, invited Member States to follow. It sets out a best-practice approach to taking fingerprints. Where relevant, Member States should also take into account the […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 54

Where necessary, hits should be checked by a trained fingerprint expert in order to ensure the accurate determination of responsibility under , the exact identification of the third-country national or stateless person and the exact identification of the criminal suspect or victim of crime whose data might be stored in Eurodac. Checks by a trained […]

Eurodac Regulation:
Recital 74

In addition, access should be allowed on condition that a prior search in the national biometric databases of the Member State and in the automated fingerprinting identification systems of all other Member States under Council Decision 2008/615/JHA (29) has been conducted, unless the consultation of in accordance with Article 22(2) of indicates that the data […]