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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2252/article-4",
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  "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": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Without prejudice to data protection rules, persons to whom a passport or travel document is issued shall have the right to verify the personal data contained in the passport or travel document and, where appropriate, to ask for rectification or erasure.\n2. No information in machine-readable form shall be included in a passport or travel document unless provided for in this Regulation, or its Annex, or unless it is mentioned in the passport or travel document by the issuing Member State in accordance with its national legislation.\n3. Biometric data shall be collected and stored in the storage medium of passports and travel documents with a view to issuing such documents. For the purpose of this Regulation the biometric features in passports and travel documents shall only be used for verifying:\n(a) the authenticity of the passport or travel document;\n(b) the identity of the holder by means of directly available comparable features when the passport or travel document is required to be produced by law;\nThe checking of the additional security features shall be carried out without prejudice to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 establishing a Community Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) . The failure of the matching in itself shall not affect the validity of the passport or travel document for the purpose of the crossing of external borders.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 444/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 May 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 105, 13.4.2006, p. 1 ."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/2252/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
}