| Eurodac | Database on asylum applicants and individuals who have illegally crossed an outer border of the EU. By comparing fingerprints, a member state can check whether an asylum applicant or foreigner who resides illegally in the member state has applied for asylum in another member state. Eurodac comprises a database for fingerprints managed by the European Commission and electronic systems for data transmission between the member states and the central database. In addition to fingerprints, the data transmitted by the member states also includes the member state of origin, the place and time of application, the gender of the applicant and their ID number. |
