1. A person screening method, which comprises: detecting a person's intention to pass; communicating notification data, which indicate a screening intention of the person and comprise data identifying the person, to a screening entity; comparing, at a central control device of the screening entity, the data identifying the person with respect to examination information of a screening database and, at the central control device of the screening entity, generating check data required for the person screening process, the check data comprising a comparison result and at least a portion of the data identifying the person; storing the following in a passage control table database: information about security features of identity documents to be checked, information about screening steps necessary for examining the security features, instructions for screening steps to be performed during the person screening process in a manner dependent on a screening situation, and/or control instructions for controlling a screening device during the person screening process; and adding passage control table data to the check data defining what features of the person are to be detected and in what way, and also what features of an ID document of the person are to be detected and how they are to be verified; communicating the generated check data with the added passage control table data from the central control device to at least one screening device of at least one screening station that is separated from the central control device; detecting screening information of the person using the at least one screening device based on the received generated check data with the added passage control table data, the screening information comprising features detected from the person and features detected from an ID document; evaluating, at the screening station that is separated from the central control device of the screening entity, the screening information on the basis of the received generated check data with the added passage control table data and generating a screening decision at the screening station; and outputting the screening decision; wherein, during communication of the notification data to the screening entity, the notification data are first sent to a confidence device that retrieves at least a portion of the data identifying the person from an ID information database of the confidence device and adds the portion of the data identifying the person from the ID information database to the notification data and subsequently communicates the notification data to the central control device of the screening entity, wherein the confidence device does not belong to the screening entity.