The Council Presidency is proposing that residence permits will be "issued as individual documents, irrespective of the age of the person" and that a new Article in the Regulation saying that all children aged six
The Council Presidency is proposing that residence permits will be “issued as individual documents, irrespective of the age of the person” and that a new Article in the Regulation saying that all children aged six and over should be fingerprinted: EU doc no: 6201/07 This is despite the Commission’s view that: “the reliability of fingerprints is only acceptable for children above 12 years old”
See previous story: Resident third country nationals – biometric residence permits (link). Planned residence permits will have two “chips” – one with biometrics (fingerprints) the other with “national” data and so-called services. Over 17 million people with the right to reside in the EU will be issued with: a two-chip residence permit which will be treated as an ID card too and which will control access and use of “e-government” services (ie: benefits, employment, education, health, driving licence etc) and be used by “e-business” (ie: debit/credit cards and their histories)