Residence permits issued by Member States to third-country nationals shall be drawn up in a uniform format and provide sufficient space for the information set out in the Annex hereto. Residence permits to third-country nationals shall be issued as stand-alone documents in ID 1 or ID 2 format. Each Member State may add in the relevant space of the uniform format information of importance regarding the nature of the permit and the legal status of the person concerned, in particular information as to whether or not the person is permitted to work.
Council Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002 of 13 June 2002 laying down a uniform format for residence permits for third-country nationals
Council Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002 of 13 June 2002 laying down a uniform format for residence permits for third-country nationals
Article 1
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For the purpose of this Regulation,
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‘residence permit’ shall mean any authorisation issued by the authorities of a Member State allowing a third-country national to stay legally on its territory, with the exception of:
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visas;
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permits issued pending examination of a request for asylum, an application for a residence permit or an application for its extension;
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permits issued in exceptional circumstances with a view to an extension of the authorised stay with a maximum duration of one month;
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authorisations issued for a stay of a duration not exceeding six months by Member States not applying the provisions of Article 21 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders(1);
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‘third-country national’ shall mean any person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Treaty.
Article 2
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Additional technical specifications for the uniform format for residence permits relating to the following shall be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 7(2):
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additional security features and requirements including enhanced anti-forgery, counterfeiting and falsification standards;
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technical processes and rules for the filling in of the uniform residence permit;
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other rules to be observed for the filling in of the uniform residence permit;
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technical specifications for the storage medium of the biometric features and the security thereof, including prevention of unauthorised access;
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requirements for the quality of and common standards for the facial image and the fingerprint images;
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an exhaustive list of additional national security features which could be added by Member States in accordance with point (h) of the Annex.
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The colours of the uniform residence permit may be changed in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 7(2).
Article 3
In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 7(2), it may be decided that the specifications referred to in Article 2 shall be secret and not be published. In that case they shall be made available only to the bodies designated by the Member States as responsible for the printing and to persons duly authorised by a Member State or the Commission.
Each Member State shall designate one body having responsibility for printing the uniform residence permit. It shall communicate the name of that body to the Commission and the other Member States. The same body may be designated by two or more Member States. Each Member State shall be entitled to change its designated body. It shall inform the Commission and the other Member States accordingly.
Article 4
Without prejudice to data protection rules, persons to whom the residence permit is issued shall have the right to verify the personal particulars contained in the residence permit and, where appropriate, to have them corrected or deleted.
No information in machine-readable form shall be included on the resident permit or on the storage medium of the residence permit referred to in Article 4a, unless provided for in this Regulation, or its Annex or unless it is mentioned in the related travel document by the issuing State in accordance with its national legislation. Member States may also store data for e-services such as e-government and e-business as well as additional provisions relating to the residence permit on a chip referred to in point 16 of the Annex. However, all national data must be logically separated from the biometric data referred to in Article 4a.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the biometric features in residence permits shall only be used for verifying:
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the authenticity of the document;
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the identity of the holder by means of directly available comparable features when the residence permit is required to be produced by national legislation.
Article 4a
The uniform format for residence permits shall include a storage medium containing the facial image and two fingerprint images of the holder, both in interoperable formats. The data shall be secured and the storage medium shall be of sufficient capacity and capability to guarantee the integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data.