Belgrade, Dec 3, 2009 – First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said that more than 5,000 biometric passports with fingerprints have been issued since yesterday, when the issuing of the new generation of passports began.
Apart from data on the identity of the owner, the new passports also contain their fingerprint and a new inspection system for unlocking the passport's chip.
This will enable the passport holders to pass through automatic passages, without interacting with border police, at the borders of the states which have highly developed systems of passport control.
Dacic said that by issuing biometric passports with fingerprints, Serbia joined the group of ten countries in the world and the three European states that have mastered this technology.
He explained that in June the passports with fingerprints became standard in the rules of the EU. Serbia has actually surpassed some European states in implementing these passports.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said that the end of visas requirements for Serbia is not a gift, but the result of all the reforms that have been carried out in the last year and a half.
All citizens who already have biometric passports without a fingerprint will not have to change them since they will be valid until the expiration date and will be just as valid as the new generation of passports.
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