Division 1 Material

The paper used for those sections of the passport or travel document giving personal particulars or other data shall meet the following minimum requirements:

• no optical brighteners,

• duotone watermarks,

• security reagents to guard against attempts at tampering by chemical erasure,

• coloured fibres (partly visible and partly fluorescent under UV light, or invisible and fluorescent in at least two colours),

• UV-fluorescent planchettes are recommended (mandatory for stickers),

• the use of security thread is recommended.

If the biographical data page is in sticker form, the watermark in the paper used for that page may be dispensed with. The watermark may also be dispensed with in the paper used for the inside of the passport or travel document covers. Security reagents are required on the inside covers only if data are entered there.

Stitching thread should be protected against substitution.

If a card for inserting personal data in the passport or travel document is made entirely of a synthetic substrate, it is not usually possible to incorporate the authentication marks used in passport or travel document paper. In the case of stickers and cards, the lack of marks in the materials shall be compensated for by measures in respect of security printing, use of an anti copying device, or an issuing technique according to sections 3, 4 and 5 over and above the following minimum standards.