comparison
as defined in Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008 on the implementation of Decision…, Article 2, point (a)
(a)
‘search’ and ‘comparison’, as referred to in Articles 3, 4 and 9 of Decision 2008/615/JHA, mean the procedures by which it is established whether there is a match between, respectively, DNA data or dactyloscopic data which have been communicated by one Member State and DNA data or dactyloscopic data stored in the databases of one, several, or all of the Member States;