{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1157/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1157/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1157",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1157",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Additional technical specifications",
  "text": "1. In order to ensure, where appropriate, that identity cards and residence documents referred to in points (a) and (c) of Article 2 comply with future minimum security standards, the Commission shall establish, by means of implementing acts, additional technical specifications, relating to the following:\n(a) additional security features and requirements, including enhanced anti-forgery, counterfeiting and falsification standards;\n(b) technical specifications for the storage medium of the biometric features referred to in Article 3(5) and their security, including prevention of unauthorised access and facilitation of validation;\n(c) requirements for quality and common technical standards for the facial image and the fingerprints.\nThose implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2).\n2. In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 15(2), it may be decided that the specifications referred to in this Article are to be secret and are not to be published. In such a case, they shall be made available only to the bodies designated by the Member States as responsible for printing and to persons duly authorised by a Member State or by the Commission.\n3. Each Member State shall designate one body having responsibility for printing identity cards, and one body having responsibility for printing residence cards of family members of Union citizens, and shall communicate the names of such bodies to the Commission and to the other Member States. Member States shall be entitled to change such designated bodies and shall inform the Commission and the other Member States accordingly.\nMember States may also decide to designate a single body having responsibility for printing both identity cards and residence cards of family members of Union citizens and shall communicate the name of this body to the Commission and to the other Member States.\nTwo or more Member States may also decide to designate a single body for those purposes and shall inform the Commission and the other Member States accordingly.",
  "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/2019/1157/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:14.262395+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."
}