Document: BEL-AO-03001

BEL-AO-03001

Cover
Inside front cover: Substrate; Printing technique; UV feature
Inside back cover: Substrate; Printing technique; UV feature
Biodata page: Substrate; Printing technique; Biographical data; Facial image; Facial image; Laminate; UV feature; UV feature
Inner page(s): Substrate; Printing technique; Printing technique; UV feature; UV feature
Inner page(s): Watermark; Printing technique; UV feature; UV feature; UV feature
Inner page(s)

Title:

PASPOORT - PASSEPORT - REISEPASS

Issuing Country:

BEL - Belgium • ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE_KONINKRIJK BELGIË_KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN •

Document Category:

A - Passport

Document type:

O - ordinary document

Document version number:

03001

First issued on:

23/03/2003

Not valid after:

31/01/2008

Valid:

Legal status / main purpose:

Travel document issued to nationals of: BEL - Belgium • ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE_KONINKRIJK BELGIË_KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN •

Overall construction:

single booklet

Format width (mm):

Format height (mm):

125

Number of pages:

Validity

Maximum validity:

5 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

18 year(s)

Extension is possible:

Validity

Maximum validity:

2 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

0 year(s)

Maximum age for validity:

17 year(s)

Extension is possible:

There is also a German-language version of this series, but we cannot display images of it at present (2008) as we have no specimen document available.

Related / associated document(s)

BEL-AO-03001

Cover

Construction:

flexible

Cover embossing:

hot foil stamping

Material:

plastic

Overall colour:

burgundy

Cover (Dutch-language version)

Security features:

Substrate

Presence of Fibres:

Planchettes:

Light:

NORMAL

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

Security Element:

guilloches / fine line patterns

Security Element:

microprint

Description:

"ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE KONINKRIJK BELGIE KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN" (repeated)

Security Element:

rainbow colouring

Description:

orange - green - orange

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Remark:

orange --> yellow

Cover, front - inside (Dutch-language version) under UV light (365 nm)

Inside back cover

Substrate
Printing technique
UV feature

Security features:

Substrate

Presence of Fibres:

Planchettes:

Light:

NORMAL

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

Security Element:

guilloches / fine line patterns

Security Element:

latent image

Technique:

intaglio printing

Description:

tilting effect: "B" in leaf motif

Security Element:

microprint

Description:

"ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE KONINKRIJK BELGIE KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN" (repeated)

Security Element:

rainbow colouring

Description:

orange - green - orange

Security Element:

microprint

Technique:

intaglio printing

Description:

"ROYAUMEDEBELGIQUEKONINKRIJKBELGIEKÖNIGREICHBELGIEN" (repeated) as border round leaf motif

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Remark:

orange --> yellow

Cover, back - inside (Dutch-language version) under UV light (365 nm)

Biodata page

Substrate
Printing technique
Biographical data
Facial image
Facial image
Laminate
UV feature
UV feature

Biodata page (Dutch-language version)

Security features:

Substrate

Presence of Fibres:

Planchettes:

Light:

NORMAL

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

Security Element:

rainbow colouring

Description:

orange - green - orange

Security Element:

guilloches / fine line patterns

Description:

fine line pattern

Security Element:

microprint

Description:

"ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE KONINKRIJK BELGIE KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN" forming endless text

Security features:

Biographical data

Light:

NORMAL

Description:

machine-readable text and signature

Security features:

Facial image

Light:

NORMAL

Photo integration technique:

laser printing

from about the beginning of 2005 only facial images in colour are used

Security features:

Facial image

Light:

TRANSMITTED

Photo integration technique:

laser perforation

Security features:

Laminate

Light:

NORMAL

Laminate UV features:

yes

Laminate position:

positioned in centre and does not reach edges of page

laminate itself is not sewn-in, but counterstrip (laminate backing sheet) is

the first passports in the "EE" series had only one small UV-reactive coat-of-arms (at the top over the facial image); in later documents, a second small UV-reactive coat-of-arms was placed over the facial image at the bottom

Security Element:

OVI (optically variable ink)

Description:

map changes colour: green --> blue

Colour shifts in OVI

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

Description:

orange --> yellow

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Old-style laminate: only one small coat-of-arms over facial image

New-style laminate: two small coats-of-arms over facial image (365 nm)

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

Description:

coat-of-arms --> green; rectangle --> red; polychrome picture (representation of the Royal Palace) --> multicoloured

UV feature:

fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)

Remark:

UV safeguard in laminate

Inner page(s)

Substrate
Printing technique
Printing technique
UV feature
UV feature

(From) Page number (as printed):

Up to page number (as printed):

no perforated number on pages 1/2

Dutch-language version, page 1

Security features:

Substrate

Presence of Fibres:

Planchettes:

Light:

NORMAL

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

Security Element:

rainbow colouring

Description:

orange - green - orange

Security Element:

guilloches / fine line patterns

Security Element:

microprint

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

different background printing (cf. step pyramids at top and bottom)

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent serial number

black passport number fluoresces green under UV light

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Remark:

orange --> yellow

Page 1 under UV light (365 nm)

Inner page(s)

Watermark
Printing technique
UV feature
UV feature
UV feature

(From) Page number (as printed):

Up to page number (as printed):

Pages 4/5 in Dutch-language version

Security features:

Watermark

Light:

TRANSMITTED

page number is incorporated in watermark

Watermark on the visa pages

Security features:

Printing technique

Light:

NORMAL

Security Element:

guilloches / fine line patterns

Security Element:

rainbow colouring

Description:

orange - green - orange

Security Element:

microprint

Description:

"ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE KONINKRIJK BELGIE KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN" (repeated)

Security Element:

anti-scan/ anti-copy pattern

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Visa page and stitching under UV light (365 nm)

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

fluorescent fibres

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT

UV feature:

Binding: fluorescent stitching thread

Inner page(s)

(From) Page number (as printed):

Up to page number (as printed):

Page 3 in Dutch-language version

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