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FAL Programme. Presentation to ACI July 2004 Mary McMunn Chief FAL section. ICAO Assembly. ICAO Council. A ir T ransport C ommittee. Secretariat. Divisions. Panels. TAG/MRTD. Facilitation Programme: Mandate. Elects Council Instructs Council. Air Transport Bureau ATB.
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FAL Programme Presentation to ACI July 2004 Mary McMunn Chief FAL section
ICAO Assembly ICAO Council Air Transport Committee Secretariat Divisions Panels TAG/MRTD Facilitation Programme: Mandate Elects Council Instructs Council
Air Transport Bureau ATB Air Navigation Bureau ANB Technical Co-operation Bureau TCB Legal Bureau LEB Administration Bureau ADB Aviation Security and Facilitation Branch (S&F) Economic and Statistics Branch (E&S) Aviation Security Section (AVSEC) Facilitation Section ( FAL) Secretary General
What is FAL programme about? • What does ICAO do? • What is the role of airports?
ID Cards Passports Crew & Other ID Visas What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : MRTD
Data Base Cleared What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Border Control
Passenger Path Baggage Path Security Control What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues :Passenger, Baggage and Cargo Flow Rationalization
What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Efficient Management of control procedures
What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Illegal Migration
What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Cargo
What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Health Issues SARS Detection Technology
What is “facilitation”? Facilitation issues : Alien Species Brown tree snake
What is the FAL Programme about? Primarily, facilitation of border controls. Strategy in 3 parts: • Standardize travel documents • Improve border clearance • Tackle security problems
What does ICAO do?Facilitation Section • Manage Annex 9 – Facilitation • Publish specifications on Machine Readable Travel Documents (Doc 9303). • Follow up on implementation of Annex 9. • Notification of compliance, differences and comments on SARPs
What does ICAO do? Producing specs for MRTDs We design your travel documents • Technical Advisory Group on Machine Readable Travel Documents (TAG/MRTD) • Doc 9303 – Machine Readable Passports – Part 1 Visas – Part 2 Official Travel Documents – Part 3
What do Civil Aviation Authorities do ? • Mandate for FAL programme in the Chicago Convention. • Implementing tasks to be performed or managed.
Obligations of Aviation Community • Art. 10 - Landing at customs airport • Art. 13 - Entry and clearance regulations • Art. 29 - Documents carried in aircraft • Art. 35 - Cargo restrictions
Obligations of States • Art. 14 - Prevention of spread of disease • Art. 22 - Facilitation of formalities • Art. 23 - Customs and immigration procedures • Art. 24 - Customs duty
Obligations of States(cont’d) • Art. 37(j) -Adoption of international standard and procedures - customs and immigration • Art.38 - Departures from international standards and procedures
New Appendix 11, Annex 9Airport FAL Committee Functions • Day-to-day flight clearance operations • 45-minute and 60-minutes goals performance • Systems support – immigration and customs inspection • Traffic flows / checkpoints
New Appendix 11, Annex 9Airport FAL Committee Functions • Signage • Staffing adjustments • Input to new facilitation design • Baggage delivery to CIQ
New Appendix 12, Annex 9 • Proposed by FAL/12: • Implementing tasks for National FAL Committees related to each Chicago Convention article.
Airport FAL • New Standard proposed by FAL/12: “Contracting States shall ensure that the provisions of Annex 9 continue to be implemented in the event an airport becomes privatized.”
Chicago Convention • Article 13 – Entry and clearance regulations • Article 23 – Customs and immigration procedures International Law binding on 188 Contracting States
Assembly Resolution A32-18 • International cooperation in protecting the security and integrity of passports • 1998: States resolved to safeguard and protect passports against fraud and assist one another • Updated in 2001
Annex 9 to the Chicago Convention Standards and Recommended Practices • Including travel documents security issuance and controls • Immigration / customs clearance procedures States obligated by Standards unless they notify a “difference” to ICAO.
Annex 9 to the Chicago Convention • Updated by FAL12 (Cairo, March 2004) • New travel document security provisions • New Standard – All States will issue MRP by 2010
Doc 9303 Part 3 Part 2 Part 1 Section IV TD1 Card (ID-1 size) Section V TD2 Card / Label (ID-2 size) Section IV Passport (ID-3 Size) Section IV Format A Visa (size to fit in ID-3 document) Section V Format B Visa (ID-2 document) Section III – Specifications Common to all MRTDs
Security Guidelines • Document features (Doc 9303) • Minimum Security Measures handling and issuance of passports (G-8 / ICAO)
Work on the TAG/MRTD(1995 – Today) Doc 9303 Machine Readable Passport Machine Readable Visa Machine Readable Travel Documents Biometric Blueprint
Doc 9303 • Doc 9303 revised to assimilate new technologies, keeping the MRZ
Machine Readable Passports • Part 1, Machine Readable Passports: 4th edition (1999), 5th edition (2003): • Machine verifiable security features • Use of bar codes and ICs • Minimum security features • MRZ retained as the globally interoperable technology
Machine Readable Visas • 3rd edition (end 2004): 2 policy changes: • Inclusion of space for “portrait” or other identification feature • “One person per visa”
Machine Readable Official Travel Documents • Part 3, Machine Readable Official Documents: 2nd edition (2002) • Data storage expansion: security features; biometrics • Specifications for CMCs
Biometric Blueprint • Biometrics: enhance security benefits of MRTDs • Compatibility of technologies with MRTD issuance process • May 2003: ICAO adopts the biometric blueprint
Biometric Blueprint • Choice of biometric and storage technology most compatible with the requirements for machine-assisted identity confirmation with MRTDs • Face the primary biometric • Fingerprint and Iris as secondaries • Contactless IC • Logical Data Structure • PKI Digital Signatures
ICAO Blueprint • Adopted by the Air Transport Committee of the Council on 22 May 2003 • Technical Reports to become Specifications • New Annex 9 Recommendation FAL/12.