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Madam President, Commissioner Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, Regulation 2252, adopted in 2004, was an important step towards our improving and harmonising standards for protecting passports and travel documents. We have introduced biometric identification elements to establish a more reliable link between the document and its true holder.
However, passport security is not confined to the passport itself: the whole process, beginning with the presentation of the documents – known technically as ‘breeder documents’ – needed for a passport to be issued, followed by the collection of the biometric data, and ending with checking and ‘matching’ at border control posts, is relevant.
It is useless to increase the level of passport security if we continue to allow weak points in other parts of the chain. Examples of this include the recent news story that around 10% of biometric passports in circulation in France are fake, having been obtained on the basis of falsified documentation, or the case of a study submitted during a hearing before the Netherlands Parliament revealing that a test undertaken by a local government proves that more than 20% of digital impressions collected were non-verifiable and therefore useless.
Freedom of movement in the Schengen area is, without a doubt, one of European integration’s greatest successes, but it requires a high level of security. The existence of secure passports and documents that function effectively and efficiently contributes to this. It is therefore imperative to find solutions to any problems that may exist with regard, firstly, to confidence in the process of collecting biometric data; secondly, to the reliability and usefulness of digital impressions for different age brackets, specifically in relation to children and older people; thirdly, to the existing disparities between Member States concerning documents – ‘breeder documents’ – that may be used as a basis for issuing passports; and, fourthly, to the way in which digital impressions can be ‘matched’.
You know, Commissioner, that the Council was responsible for sending the Member States a questionnaire enabling analysis of possible shortcomings in the identification systems, and of the numbers of errors recorded, so as to evaluate the need to introduce a European system. These concerns were included in our revision of the regulation in 2008, so Parliament introduced a clause for its review after three years, so as to enable the Commission to undertake studies and receive the results of this questionnaire.
The question I am asking, Commissioner, is does the Commission already have the results to present to us and, in the light thereof, is it thinking of tabling any legislative proposal that may be necessary?"@en1
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