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Biometric passport of the Republic of Croatia (source: mup.gov.hr)

Biometric passport is an official document that is used for an unlimited number of trips abroad. In it's structure contains an electronic data carrier - the chip, which is hidden inside the passport in which biometric data of passport holder is stored

Biometric passports have significant advantages:

• provides even greater protection against fraudulent misuse and unauthorized alteration
• reduces the risk of "identity theft"
• enhances the protection of the Croatian border through quick checks of Croatian passport holders entering the country.

Croatian biometric passports is harmonized with the recommendations of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) and the European Union Council Regulation No. 2252/2004 from 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States of the Eureopan Union. This Regulation requires the Member States of the EU to integrate facial image of passport holder in chip inside the passport by June 2006., and for the implementation of fingerprinting deadline is June 2009.

Inside the chip in biometric passports are stored

• personal data of passport holder: name, nationality, date of birth, gender, mark of travel documents, marking the state, passport number, personal identification number, date of issue and date of expiry of the passport, authority that issued the passport (the same data which are printed on the photo)
• biometric data of passport holders: digitized facial image and two fingerprints forefinger.

The role of CSCA-Croatia

In accordance with the recommendations of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) biometric data stored on electronic media (contactless chip) must be digitally signed. For that purpose each country must establish a Country Signing Certificate Authority (CSCA), a system that issues digital certificates to sign electronic documents. CSCA-Croatia is system for issuing digital certificates for signing Croatian eDocuments and it's part of the IT infrastructure of the Ministry of Interior, operating in the closed environment of the Information system of the Ministry of Interior.

CSCA-Croatia contact data

The data about CSCA-Croatia certificates

CSCA-Croatia certificate revocation list

CSCA-Croatia deviation list