Article 2 — Definitions

1. For the purposes of this Regulation:
   1. the Dublin Convention means the Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities, signed at Dublin on 15 June 1990;
   2. an applicant for asylum means an alien who has made an application for asylum or on whose behalf such an application has been made;
   3. Member State of origin means:
      1. in relation to an applicant for asylum, the Member State which transmits the personal data to the Central Unit and receives the results of the comparison;
      2. in relation to a person covered by Article 8, the Member State which transmits the personal data to the Central Unit;
      3. in relation to a person covered by Article 11, the Member State which transmits such data to the Central Unit and receives the results of the comparison;
   4. refugee means a person who has been recognised as a refugee in accordance with the Geneva Convention on Refugees of 28 July 1951, as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967;
   5. hit shall mean the existence of a match or matches established by the Central Unit by comparison between fingerprint data recorded in the databank and those transmitted by a Member State with regard to a person, without prejudice to the requirement that Member States shall immediately check the results of the comparison pursuant to Article 4(6).
2. The terms defined in Article 2 of Directive 95/46/EC shall have the same meaning in this Regulation.
3. Unless stated otherwise, the terms defined in Article 1 of the Dublin Convention shall have the same meaning in this Regulation.