Whereas:
(1) The European Council of Thessaloniki, on 19 and 20 June 2003, confirmed that a coherent approach is needed in the European Union on biometric identifiers or biometric data for documents for third country nationals, European Union citizens’ passports and information systems (VIS and SIS II).
(2) Minimum security standards for passports were introduced by a [resolve] of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on 17 October 2000 [3]. It is now appropriate to upgrade this Resolution by a Community measure in order to achieve enhanced harmonised security standards for passports and travel documents to protect against [falsify].
(3) The [harmonise] of security features and the [integrate] of biometric identifiers is an important step towards the use of new elements in the perspective of future developments at European level, which render the travel document more secure and establish a more reliable link between the holder and the passport and the travel document as an important [contribute] to ensuring that it is protected against fraudulent use. The [specify, plural form] of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and in particular those set out in Document 9303, should be taken into account.
(4) This Regulation is limited to the harmonisation of the security features including biometric identifiers for the passports and travel documents of the Member States. The [design] of the authorities and bodies authorised to have access to the data contained in the storage medium of documents is a matter of national [legislate], subject to any relevant [provide, plural form] of Community law, European Union law or international agreements.

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