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The Member States have negotiated a new version of the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention of the International Labour Organisation, aimed at simplifying the formalities involved in going ashore in countries of which they are not nationals.
Unlike the rapporteur, I am not in the least surprised by the decision to enter biometric data in seafarers’ identity documents, because there can no longer be any doubt that the security of travel documents must be tightened up and that new technology of this kind offers a series of advantages in terms of identifying individuals and preventing documents from being falsified.
The global aim of this proposal is thus to ally flexibility with security.
As regards the issue of the ‘model’ chosen, which consists of a fingerprint printed as numbers on a bar code, there is no interoperability problem, either with passports or with visas, since fingerprints will be included in both proposals, hence they are comparable. As for the technical discrepancy and the different equipment required, it should be pointed out that this is the least costly solution. Furthermore, we are still waiting for the Commission to table a proposal with the model chosen for the introduction of biometric data on visas, ..."@en1
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