{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252/annex/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252/annex/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/2252",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 of 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252",
  "path": "annex/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Biographical data page",
  "text": "The passport or travel document shall contain a machine-readable biographical data page, which shall comply with Part 1 (machine-readable passports) of ICAO Document 9303 and the way they are issued shall comply with the specifications for machine-readable passports set out therein.\nThe portrait of the holder shall also appear on this page and shall not be affixed but integrated into the material of the biographical data page by the issuing techniques referred to in Section 5.\nThe biographical data shall be entered on the page following the title page in the passport or travel document. In any event, an inside cover page must no longer be used for biographical data.\nThe layout of the biographical data page shall be such that it is distinguishable from the other pages.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/2252/annex/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:00.351781+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}