EU-BIOMETRIC BORDER CHECKS: Commission wants two systems to track travellers entering the EU
EuropeanVoice / 31-01-2008
One system will require airline passengers to register online before flying to Europe while the other system will use biometrics to track people entering and leaving the Union through air, land and sea borders.
A separate system of collecting information involving airline passengers entering the EU, proposed by the Commission last November, was given broad backing by justice and interior ministers at a meeting last week (25 January).
Franco Frattini, the commissioner for justice, freedom and security, defended the increased surveillance of travellers to the EU. “We should have different systems because there is different data collected and for different purposes,” he said following the meeting in Brdo, Slovenia.
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