ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 7501-3 Second edition 2005-10-15 Identification cards Machine readable travel documents - Part 3: Machine readable official travel documents Cartes d'identification - Documents de voyage lisibles par machine Partie 3: Documents de voyage officiels lisibles par machine Reference number ISO/IEC 7501-3:2005(E) IEC Copyright International Organization for Standardization @ISO/IEC2005 itted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 7501-3:2005(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by IsO member bodies. In the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below ?ISO/IEC2005 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 . CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland yemainagazainandardizato @ ISO/IEC 2005 - All rights reserved nitted without licensefromIHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 7501-3:2005(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission)formthespecializedsystemforworldwidestandardization.Nationalbodiesthataremembersof ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology,ISOandTEChaveestablishedajointtechnicalcommittee,ISO/lECJTC1. Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Subcommittee SC 17, Cards and personal identification. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (IsO/lEc 7501-3:1997), of which it constitutes a minor revision ISO/IEc 7501 consists of the following parts, under the general title ldentification cards Machine readable travel documents: Part 1: Machine readable passport Part 2: Machine readable visa Part 3: Machine readable official travel documents ili Not for Resale dadizi eworkinmitewihoutliceefm Not for Resale INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC7501-3:2005(E) Identification cards Machine readable travel documents Part 3: Machine readable official travel documents globally interoperable machine readable optical character recognition (OcR) data, which may at the option of Governments, be accepted in lieu of a passport as defined in Annex 9 (Chapter 3, paragraph 3.4) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation year 1946 (as revised). The edition of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Document, i.e. Doc 9303 Part 3 - Size-1 and Size-2 Machine Readable Official Travel Documents, Sections Ill and IV, Technical Specifications, which wasado