This journal was developed in ICAO to serve a broad spectrum of persons in government agencies, the aviation industry and the public interested in our work on Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) specifications and related technology. The MRTD Report will be published at least twice a year, and an index of the articles published in every issue will be published once a year. Thank you for reading the MRTD Report. Feel free to download the Acrobat version and disseminate it. We hope you will find it interesting.

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The following Technical Reports should be read in conjunction with ICAO Doc 9303, Parts I, II, III (specifications for machine readable travel documents) as they are the precursor to new specifications which will eventually be included therein.