Ireland Will Not Be Compelled to Fingerprint Citizens for Passports File:///C:/Users/Palop.GIGA/Zotero/Storage/3PLWEA5P/Ireland-Will-N
Ireland will not be compelled to fingerprint citizens for passports file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/3PLWEA5P/ireland-will-n... State has secured a derogation from proposed new EU security regulation Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 17:12 Elaine Edwards The State will not be required to fingerprint Irish citizens for their passport cards de proposed EU regulation forcing member states to take two fingerprints to strengthen security of identity cards issued to union citizens, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed. Irish diplomats told the EU the matter would be “politically problematic” for the Sta negotiations on the regulation late last year, official documents show. The European Commission proposed the regulation in April to improve the security cards, which allow people to exit and enter another member state. Residence docum to EU citizens and residence cards issued to non-EU family members of EU citizens its scope. The proposal said the introduction of minimum security standards should “facilitate exercise of free movement and improve security within the EU and at its borders, in by limiting the scope for document fraud and identity theft”. The Austrian presidency of the Council of the European Union signed off on a revise of the regulation in November with a mandate for negotiations with the European P Ireland succeeded in having a derogation inserted into the revised regulation becaus not consider the passport card to be an “identity card”. Civil liberties Concerns had been raised by international civil liberties organisation Statewatch rec all holders of Irish passport cards would have to be fingerprinted, if the preferred ne the Council of the European Union and European Commission were maintained foll negotiations with the European Parliament.
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