FAL Programme
Presentation to ACI
July 2004
Mary McMunn
Chief FAL section
Facilitation Programme: Mandate
ICAO
Assembly
Elects Council
Instructs Council
ICAO
Council
Air Transport
Committee
Divisions
Secretariat
TAG/MRTD
Panels
Secretary General
Air
Navigation
Bureau
ANB
Air
Transport
Bureau
ATB
Economic
and
Statistics
Branch
(E&S)
Administration
Bureau
ADB
Aviation
Security
and
Facilitation
Branch
(S&F)
Aviation
Security
Section
(AVSEC)
Facilitation
Section
( FAL)
Legal
Bureau
LEB
Technical
Co-operation
Bureau
TCB
What is FAL programme about?
What does ICAO do?
What is the role of airports?
What is “facilitation”?
Facilitation issues : MRTD
ID Cards
Passports
Visas
Crew & Other ID
What is “facilitation”?
Facilitation issues : Border Control
Data Base
Cleared
What is “facilitation”?
Facilitation issues : Passenger, Baggage
and Cargo Flow Rationalization
Passenger Path
Baggage Path
Security Control
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 9
Airport 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 9
Airport 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.”
ICAO “Doctrine” on Travel
Document Security
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 1
Part 3
Part 2
Section III – Specifications Common to all MRTDs
Section IV
Passport
Section IV
TD1 Card
(ID-3 Size)
(ID-1 size)
Section V
TD2 Card /
Label
(ID-2 size)
Section IV
Format A
Visa
Section V
Format B
Visa
(size to fit in
ID-3 document)
(ID-2 document)
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
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



Face the primary biometric
Fingerprint and Iris as secondaries
Contactless IC
Logical Data Structure
PKI Digital Signatures
Facial Recognition
Fingerprint Recognition
Iris
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.
MRTD Web Site
www.icao.int/mrtd