Division Enrolment

At the moment of enrolment, the version 2.0 (or newer version) of the Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) metric^f1 defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shall be used for verifying that the quality of the captured fingerprint data respects the thresholds that shall be specified in the technical specifications referred to in Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226.

For the purpose of enrolment, the quality of fingerprint data shall be assessed:

• at national level by Member States at the time of capture prior to their transmission to the EES Central System (CS-EES), optionally with the support of a tool provided, maintained and updated by eu-LISA, and,

• at central level.