📋 Tender Overview
The Interior Committee approved - also unanimously - new security standards for ID cards and passports. This means that the 750000 passports and 200000 ID cards issued annually in Austria will be given a new look. In addition the exchange of information between the money laundering reporting office and the law enforcement authorities will be improved in the course of the amendment.Due to an EU regulation Austria is obliged to equip ID cards with built-in electronic data carriers from August 2 2021. For this reason Austrian identity cards will in future contain a photo and two fingerprints of the respective holder. The security level of passports will also be improved in the course of the amendment. In the future the personal data page will be made of plastic and secondary images will increase the effort for forgers to manipulate. The new passports are to be issued from July 1 2023. With the amendment qualifications of engineers and master craftsman titles can also be entered in travel documents. Furthermore the regulations still in force regarding the entry of underage relatives in passports are no longer applicable. For Hermann Gahr VP the amendment is a further development in the area of security. Robert Laimer SP emphasized that it was important to keep the security level up to date.The amendment also improves the exchange of information between the money laundering reporting office and the law enforcement authorities. This implements a directive required by European law. In future the money laundering reporting office will have to share information and analyzes with other authorities and departments - not only when it comes to money laundering and terrorist financing but also when it includes other criminal offenses.
