{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252/annex/division-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252/annex/division-5.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/5",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Issuing technique",
  "text": "To ensure that passport or travel document data are properly secured against attempts at counterfeiting and falsification, biographical data including the holder’s portrait, the holder's signature and main issue data shall be integrated into the basic material of the document. Conventional methods of attaching the photograph shall no longer be used.\nThe following issuing techniques may be used:\nlaser printing,\nthermotransfer,\nink-jet printing,\nphotographic,\nlaser-engraving that effectively penetrates into the card layers bearing the security characteristics.\nTo ensure that biographical and issue data are adequately protected against attempts at tampering, hot-seal or equivalent lamination (as thin as possible) with an anti-copying device is compulsory where laser printing, thermo-transfer or photographic techniques are used.\nTravel documents shall be issued in machine-readable form. The layout of the biographical data page shall follow the specifications given in part 1 of ICAO Document 9303, and the issuing procedures shall meet the specifications it sets for machine-readable documents.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}