Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO
Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO
Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO
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III-14 <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Readable</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Documents</strong><br />
Table III-1. Summary of security recommendations<br />
Threats Basic features Additional features<br />
Document theft – good physical security<br />
arrangements<br />
– control of all security components<br />
– serial numbers on blank<br />
documents<br />
– secure transport of blank<br />
documents<br />
– internal fraud protection system<br />
– international exchange on lost and<br />
stolen documents<br />
Notes.–<br />
– CCTV in production areas<br />
– centralized production<br />
– embedded image<br />
1. Issuing States and Organizations are recommended to include all of the basic features and to select from the<br />
additional features those that are best suited to their particular documents and issuing systems after conducting an<br />
assessment of the risks to which their documents are most susceptible.<br />
2. The descriptions in the table above are necessarily abbreviated from the main text.<br />
3. Certain of the features are repeated one or more times in the table. This indicates that the particular feature protects<br />
against more than one type of threat. It is only necessary to include these features once within any particular<br />
document.<br />
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