FADO

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FADO (which stands for "False and Authentic Documents Online") is a European image-archiving system that was set up to help combat illegal immigration and organised crime. It was established by a Joint Action of the Council of the European Union enacted in 1998. [1]

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Background

The proliferation of genuine and false documents means that frequent updating is essential. Ever more sophisticated techniques are being used to produce both genuine documents and forgeries. [2] A computerised system with restricted access has therefore been built that enables fast and secure information exchange between the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and between document experts in the European Union member states, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

Database contents

The database established by the FADO Joint Acts includes the following data:

FADO is currently available to document experts in 31 FADO partner states: in all member states of the European Union (EU) and in Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

Part of the information shared by document experts in the classified, restricted system, FADO, is made publicly available, via the Public Register of Authentic Documents Online (PRADO) website [3] which is managed by the Council of the European Union.

Document descriptions in FADO are available in all 24 official languages of the European Union. Documents are introduced by document experts in any of the languages and the standardised descriptions are translated automatically; thus, documents are immediately available in all supported languages. Additional free text information contained is translated later on by specialised linguists of the General Secretariat of the council.

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Notes

  1. Joint Action of 3 December 1998 adopted by the Council on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union concerning the setting up of a European Image Archiving System (FADO), replaced by Regulation (EU) 2020/493 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 March 2020 on the False and Authentic Documents Online (FADO) system as of April 2020
  2. Bertrand, Romain; Gomez-Krämer, Petra; Terrades, Oriol Ramos; Franco, Patrick; Ogier, Jean-Marc (August 2013). "A System Based on Intrinsic Features for Fraudulent Document Detection". 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (PDF). pp. 106–110. doi:10.1109/ICDAR.2013.29. ISBN   978-0-7695-4999-6. S2CID   7729633.
  3. consilium.europa.eu/prado – PRADO - Public Register of Authentic identity and travel Documents Online

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