Identification Cards - Machine Readable Travel Documents - Part 3: Machine Readable Official Travel Documents

Designation Number:
CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 7501-3:06 (R2016)
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
Reaffirmation
ICS code(s):
35.240.15
Status:
Proceeding to development
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SDO Comment Period End Date:
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Scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 7501 specifies generic formats and minimum data elements for visual inspection and machine reading of official travel documents in the ID-1 and ID-2 card formats containing standardized, globally interoperable machine readable optical character recognition (OCR) data, which may at the option of Governments, be accepted in lieu of a passport as defined in Annex 9 (Chapter 3, paragraph 3.4) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation year 1946 (as revised).

Project need:

To review the Standard within the required 5 year period.

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