33. Where credit and financial institutions accept reproductions of an original document and do not …

Where credit and financial institutions accept reproductions of an original document and do not examine the original document, they should take steps to ascertain that the reproduction is reliable. Credit and financial institutions should establish at least the following:

• a) if the reproduction includes security features embedded in the original document and if the specifications of the original document that are being reproduced are valid and acceptable, in particular, type, size of characters and structure of the document, by comparing them with official databases, such as PRADO¹⁵ ;
• b) whether personal data has been altered or otherwise tampered with or, where applicable, whether the picture of the customer embedded in the document was not replaced;
• c) whether the integrity of the algorithm used to generate the unique identification number of the original document, in case the official document has been issued with machine-readable zone (MRZ);
• d) whether the provided reproduction is of sufficient quality and definition so as to ensure that relevant information is unambiguous;
• e) that the provided reproduction has not been displayed on a screen based on a photograph or scan of the original identity document.

¹⁵ https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/prado-start-page.html

1. Overview

1.1 References

1.2 Identified Requirements

1.3 Related Standards

2. Identified Requirements

3. Related Standards

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