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In Focus – Digitalising Travel Documents
- The European Commission considers to take action to promote the use of digital travel documents on top of existing physical documents e.g. passports andidentity cards.
- At this early stage of legislation DG Home will take a decision which policy option to adopt. In consideration are a spectrum of actions which range from voluntary co-operation to new mandatory EU wide digital documents.
- Current consultation process will end in June 2023.