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to the table of contents of Council Regulation (EC) No 2252-2004 of 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member StatesDisclaimer
 
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Article 4
 
 Text of the act(Considered status of legislation: 1. April 2008)

1. Without prejudice to data protection rules, persons to whom a passport or travel document is issued shall have the right to verify the personal data contained in the passport or travel document and, where appropriate, to ask for rectification or erasure.

2. No information in machine-readable form shall be included in a passport or travel document unless provided for in this Regulation, or its Annex, or unless it is mentioned in the passport or travel document by the issuing Member State in accordance with its national legislation.

3. For the purpose of this Regulation, the biometric features in passports and travel documents shall only be used for verifying:

(a) the authenticity of the document;

(b) the identity of the holder by means of directly available comparable features when the passport or other travel documents are required to be produced by law.
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