European Union Commissioner for Justice Franco Frattini holds up his new biometric passport during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 29, 2006. EU governments should be ready to issue new secure biometric passports containing facial images by Aug. 28 at the latest, a senior official said Thursday. By 2009, the passports will also include two fingerprints from the passport holder in the travel document, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini said.

Source - Associated Press

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