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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9222
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/biometric passports

Commission presents future biometric passports and time frame for issue

Brussels, 29/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the European Commission presented the type of biometric passport that European Union Member States will all have to issue from 28 August 2006. The document should have a contactless chip on which will be encoded the holder's identity photograph, and from March 2007 two finger prints will also be recorded on the passport. Commissioner Franco Frattini told press that it will help “combat falsification and will make identity control at...

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