# Commission Decision of 4 March 2008 adopting the SIRENE Manual and other implementing measures for the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) (notified under document number C(2008) 774) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/333/EC), Division 2.13.5: Format and quality of biometric data

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

All biometric data entered into the system shall have undergone a specific quality check to ensure a minimum quality standard common to all SIS II users.
Before entry, checks shall be carried out at the national level to ensure that:
fingerprint data is compliant with the ANSI/NIST — ITL 1-2000 specified format, as implemented for the purposes of Interpol and adapted for SIRPIT (SIRENE Picture Transfer),
photographs, that shall only be used to confirm the identity of a person who has been located as a result of an alphanumeric search made in SIS II, are compliant with the following requirements: full frontal face pictures aspect rate shall be, as far as possible, 3:4 or 4:5. When available, a resolution of at least 480 × 600 pixels with 24 bits of colour depth shall be used. If the image has to be acquired through a scanner, the image size shall be, as far as possible, less than about 200 Kbytes.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/333/annex/division/2/division/2.13/division/2.13.5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-333/annex/division-2/division-2.13/division-2.13.5
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