TIMETABLE

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BIOMETRICS IN FINLAND
P O L I C E D E P A R T M E N T

• TIMETABLE
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• Finland will start issuing biometric passports in
  May 2005 at the earliest

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RESOURCES AND ORGANISATION

• The Administrative Unit of the Finnish Ministry
  of the Interiors Police Department
• A full-time project manager and analyst
• The project
• a steering group and four working groups
• representatives from different ministries and
  Government agencies
•  the project has now moved on from the survey
  stage to the implementation stage

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BUDGET

• The project budget for 2004 is 1.7 million euros.
  
• A part of this sum is earmarked for piloting the
  performance of biometric solutions

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BIOSEC

• EU-financed under the Sixth Framework Programme
  involving 23 partners from eight European
  countries.
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• The project provides the Ministry with
  information about the future development of
  biometric technologies and hand-on experience of
  biometric applications.

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BIOMETRIC PASSPORT

• We aim to reach the capability of issuing
  biometric passports by May 1st 2005.
• depends on
• the status of legislation on biometric passports
  in the United States
• completion of the ICAO standards
• EU plans concerning biometric passports
• the availability of contactless chips.

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BIOMETRIC PASSPORT

• Finland will comply with the ICAO standard of
  biometric passport. 
• In addition to the obligatory features of the
  standard, we are planning to adopt the following
  optional features.

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BIOMETRIC PASSPORT

•         1. The personal identity code will be
  recorded on the chip (it is also in the MRZ).
• 2. Chip copying and substitution will be
  prevented.
• 3. Unauthorised reading of the chip will be
  prevented.
• 4.  Data communication between a chip and a
  chip reader will be encrypted.
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MEASURES AND CURRENT SITUATION

• 1.Active participation
• in handling the Proposal for a Council
  Regulation on a biometric passport in the Visa
  Working Party
• in the standardisation work of ICAO. The project
  manager for the biometrics project is a member of
  ICAOs New Technology Working Group

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CURRENT SITUATION

• 2. Passport Act Proposal
• The drafting of the Finnish Passport Act proposal
  has been completed
• except for taking into account the effect that
  the Council Regulation will have on the proposal
• the timetable for handling in the Parliament the
  Finnish Passport Act will follow that of the
  Council Regulation.
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CURRENT SITUATION

• 3. New Passport information system
• a new passport information system
• The Directorate of Immigration and the Ministry
  for Foreign Affairs will also start using the
  system
• The Police IT Management Agency is in charge of
  the planning and implementation of the system.

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CURRENT SITUATION

• The new system will enable the creation of an
  image database, and it will satisfy the needs of
  biometric passports in many respects.
• The system includes, for example, image
  processing functions which process photographs to
  facilitate biometric identification
• The specification stage for the information
  system has now been completed
• the implementation period has started with the
  launching of a tendering procedure
• the system should be introduced on 1 April 2005.
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CURRENT SITUATION

• 4.Call for tenders for a biometric passport
• The current passport manufacturing contract will
  come to an end on 15th of October 2004.
• A call for tenders for a new contract was
  published on 8th of April 2004 and the offering
  period will end on 7th of June
• The call for tenders will cover both biometric
  passports and passports without biometrics.

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CURRENT SITUATION

• 5. Purchase of equipment
• the police service points (150) that issue
  passports will be supplied with scanners.
• In addition, each State Local District (100) will
  be equipped with a service point where people can
  check the content of the chip in their biometric
  passport.

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• 6. Information
•  actively role in providing information about the
  timetable for introducing a biometric passport to
  Finland
• a press release concerning the matter in March,
• the website of the biometrics project will be
  published in June.
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• 7. PKI solutions
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• We have been sketching out a model for the
  implementation of a standard digital signature.
• However, the role of ICAO in this is still
  unclear, which is why we have not been able to
  determine the final solution.
• One of the main partners of the Ministry of the
  Interiors Police Department in the planning has
  been the Population Register Centre, which has
  attended to the certificate solutions related to
  the Finnish electronic ID card.
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ROOT CA
Document signing certificate PRC gt Police IT
Management Agency gt ICAO
Country Signing CA
PRC
SUBCONTRACTOR
HALTI
Signed biometric identifier other data
POLICE IT MANAGEMENT AGENCY
hsm
Hardware Security Module
CA certificate CRLs
Bilateral agreements CA certificate CRLs
Delivery of MRTDs
Orders for MRTDs
ICAO
BORDER CONTROL
Directory
halti
halti
halti
Border Inspection System
CRL retrieval
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Directorate of Immigration
Police
Secure messaging between chip and reader
Contactless MRTD