BioTesting Europe

According to EC policies and as stated in the The Hague Programme, a coherent approach and harmonised solutions on biometric identifiers and data are necessary in the fight against illegal immigration and to improve security for EU citizens.

Now that large scale passport and visa projects are in the procurement and/or implementation stage, it is now more than ever necessary that biometric products and systems are tested and certified to uniform standards and criteria.

It is recognised that although much work has been done in the area of independent testing of biometric systems, there are still many other issues to be resolved due to a fragmentation of efforts and a lack of input by end users. The results of various tests in the last few years has shown that test results are still not comparable and that interoperability of biometric technology has not yet been achieved. To improve this situation, this project aims to establish European capabilities for performance and interoperability testing and security evaluation of biometric systems.

Read more at http://www.biotestingeurope.eu/