13/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - Biometric passports: Belgium ruled against. On 13 February, the Court of Justice of the EU found against Belgium (case C139/13) which, in 2013, had still not made the resources necessary to its 120 consulates and 600 communal administrations to issue biometric passports containing digital fingerprints, as required by regulation 2252/2004 (standards for security and biometric elements included in passports and travel documents). Belgium should have been in a...