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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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