Council Regulation (EC) No 694/2003 of 14 April 2003 on uniform formats for Facilitated Transit Documents (FTD) and Facilitated Rail Transit Documents (FRTD) provided for in Regulation (EC) No 693/2003

Article 1

Article 2

Technical specifications for the digital format for FTD and FRTD, including relating to the following, shall be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 4(2):

(a) technical standards and methods for: (i) encoding the information contained in the digital FTD and digital FRTD in the form of a 2D barcode; (ii) the facial image;

(b) specifications for generating the printable version of the digital FTD and digital FRTD;

(c) other rules to be observed for the filling in of the uniform FTD/FRTD.

Article 4

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be two months.

Article 5

Without prejudice to data protection rules, persons to whom the FTD and FRTD is issued shall have the right to verify the personal particulars contained in the FTD/FRTD and, where appropriate, to have them corrected or deleted.  —————

Article 6

Member States which have decided to do so shall issue the digital format for FTD and FRTD as referred to in Article 1 no later than one year after the adoption of the technical specifications referred to in Article 2.

The need for the incorporation of the photograph referred to in point 2 of Annex I and point 2 of Annex II may be determined by the end of 2005.

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community.

ANNEX I

The digital FTD shall contain the following data fields:

— issuing Member State;

— surname, name;

— surname at birth;

— date of birth;

— country and place of birth;

— sex;

— nationality;

— nationality at birth;

— type and number of travel document;

— issuing authority of the travel document;

— date of issue and of expiry of the travel document;

— authority that issued the digital FTD, including its location, and whether that authority issued it on behalf of another Member State;

— place and date of the decision to issue the digital FTD;

— digital FTD number;

— the territory in which the digital FTD holder is entitled to travel;

— the commencement and expiry dates of the validity period of the digital FTD;

— the number of entries authorised by the digital FTD in the territory for which the FTD is valid;

— the duration of transit as authorised by the digital FTD;

— remarks of the issuing authority to indicate any further information, which is considered necessary, provided that it complies with Article 5 of this Regulation;

— the facial image of the digital FTD holder.

ANNEX II

The digital FRTD shall contain the following data fields:

— issuing Member State;

— surname, name;

— surname at birth;

— date of birth;

— country and place of birth;

— sex;

— nationality;

— nationality at birth;

— type and number of travel document;

— issuing authority of the travel document;

— date of issue and of expiry of the travel document;

— date and time of departure of train (first entry);

— date and time of departure of train (second entry);

— authority that issued the digital FRTD, including its location and whether that authority issued it on behalf of another Member State;

— place and date of the decision to issue the digital FRTD;

— digital FRTD number;

— the territory in which the digital FRTD holder is entitled to travel;

— the commencement and expiry dates of the validity period of the digital FRTD;

— the duration of transit as authorised by the digital FRTD;

— remarks of the issuing authority to indicate any further information, which is considered necessary, provided that it complies with Article 5 of this Regulation;

— the facial image of the digital FRTD holder.