EUROSMART participated to the Public audition organised by the European Parliament on 2nd March to discuss the introduction of biometrics identifiers in visa and passports in Europe.

The Association representative, Christoph Schiller asked the Parliament and the Commission to work closer with the industry in order to adopt secure and viable solutions for the future.

The Parliament asked for a complementary report on data protection before validating both regulations after summer.

EUROSMART presented its recommendations on the European Commission proposed legal framework for electronic payments, together with 103 other European structures, banks, consumer and retailers associations, national administrations.

Olivier Piou, Chairman of Eurosmart, met the team of the Directorate General in charge of financial services and payments on 31 March. Eurosmart contribution was well perceived and better understood. The European Commission will involve Eurosmart experts in the improvement of the legal harmonisation of the evaluation of security of payment systems.

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Helsinki conference on Vehicle registration documents: 50 delegates from 25 European and future European countries’ administrations listened to the EUROSMART presentation by Marc Bertin

During Euroindia Smart Cards Exhibition held in New Delhi on 24 - 26 March, Frederic Trojani from Axalto represented EUROSMART and made a presentation at the session Security issues in the IT Security & Data Protection