Public Register of Travel and Identity Documents Online
The Public Register of Travel and Identity Documents Online "PRADO" is a website with information on security features of identity documents of countries within the European Union and the EEA. It is hosted by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC).
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[edit] Content
PRADO contains information on security features of authentic identity and travel documents. The information contained is selected and provided by document experts in the Member States of the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and Switzerland; part of the information contained in the classified, restricted system FADO is made publicly available via the PRADO site. The steering committee in the Council of the European Union is the Working Party on Frontiers in the formation of False Documents Experts.
The documents are categorized into 12 categories:
- A National passports (all types)
- B Identity cards
- C Visa (documents)
- D Stamps (passport stamps)
- E Entry papers
- F Driving licences
- G Vehicle licences / log books
- H Residence permits
- I Seaman's books
- J Travel Documents issued to non-nationals
- P Civil status documents
- X Other documents
Except for Ireland, information on documents of all EU countries is present, although the number of contributed documents differs widely (but information is added every week). In addition, document info is available on passports from some British territories and dependencies which are not part of the EU, from Ethiopia, Georgia, Jamaica, Mexico and Moldova.[1]
[edit] Multi-lingual
PRADO is currently available in 22 official languages of the European Union. Documents are introduced by document experts in any of the languages and the standardized descriptions are translated automatically; thus, documents are immediately available in all supported languages. Additional free text information contained is translated later by specialized linguists of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.
[edit] Target audience
The information on the website has been released to the general public, providing information especially to non-governmental organizations with a need or legal obligation to check identities, for example to:
- Banks and credit institutions,
- Employers,
- Mobile phone providers.
- Notaries and lawyers,
- Postal services,
- Security and guarding companies,
- Vehicle rental companies and agencies,
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- PRADO - Public Register of Authentic Identity and Travel Documents Online, Council of the European Union
- PRADO - EU Glossary of terms related to document security
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