Regulation (EU) 2020/493 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 Scope and content of the FADO system

1. The FADO system shall contain information on travel, identity, residence and civil status documents, driving licences and vehicle licences issued by Member States or the Union, and on false versions thereof.

The FADO system may contain information on documents as referred to in the first subparagraph issued by third parties, such as third countries, territorial entities, international organisations and other entities subject to international law, and on false versions thereof.

The FADO system may contain information on other related official documents, in particular those used in support of applications for official documents, issued by Member States and, where applicable, third parties, such as third countries, territorial entities, international organisations and other entities subject to international law, and on false versions thereof.

2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the following:

(a) information, including images, on authentic documents, and specimens thereof, and their security features;

(b) information, including images, on false documents, whether forged, counterfeit or pseudo documents, and their fraud characteristics;

(c) summaries of forgery techniques;

(d) summaries of the security features of authentic documents; and

(e) statistics on detected false documents.

The FADO system may also contain handbooks, contact lists, information on valid travel documents and their recognition by Member States, recommendations on effective ways of detecting specific methods of falsification and other useful related information.

3. Member States and the Union shall transmit without delay to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (the ‘Agency’) the information on the documents referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.

Member States may transmit to the Agency the information on the documents referred to in the second and third subparagraphs of paragraph 1.

Third parties, such as third countries, territorial entities, international organisations and other entities subject to international law, may transmit to the Agency the information on the documents referred to in the second and third subparagraphs of paragraph 1.