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Shira Horesh
"Under the contract, ASEC will supply contactless inlays that will be adhered to the passport cover. Currently there are about 1.5 million passports issued in Poland annually and the government intends to roll out the first electronic passports starting this quarter. The first commercial order will be supplied this year. Poland, with population of more than 38 million, is one of the new members of the European Union. The new electronic passport is complying with the EU’s mandate that its members adopt the technology by August of this year. According to a law passed by the Polish parliament, the new electronic passports will be issued starting August 28 of this year."
