Council Decision 2007/533/JHAShow full title

Article 3 Definitions

1. For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘alert’ means a set of data entered in SIS II allowing the competent authorities to identify a person or an object with a view to taking specific action;

(b) ‘supplementary information’ means information not stored in SIS II, but connected to SIS II alerts, which is to be exchanged:

(i)

in order to allow Member States to consult or inform each other when entering an alert;

(ii)

following a hit in order to allow the appropriate action to be taken;

(iii)

when the required action cannot be taken;

(iv)

when dealing with the quality of SIS II data;

(v)

when dealing with the compatibility and priority of alerts;

(vi)

when dealing with rights of access;

(c) ‘additional data’ means the data stored in SIS II and connected with SIS II alerts which are to be immediately available to the competent authorities where a person in respect of whom data has been entered in SIS II is located as a result of searches made therein;

(d) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly;

(e) ‘processing of personal data’ (processing) means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organisation, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.

2. Any reference in this Decision to provisions of the Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA shall be construed as including the corresponding provisions of Agreements concluded between the European Union and third countries on the basis of Articles 24 and 38 of the EU Treaty for the purpose of surrender of persons on the basis of an arrest warrant which provide for the transmission of such an arrest warrant via the Schengen Information System.