ID Industry Recognises the Best ID Documents in EMEA

Special awards have been made to a number of newly introduced ID documents that have demonstrated outstanding technical sophistication and excellence in design and security.

The prestigious Regional Banknote and ID Document of the Year Awards form part of the industry’s High Security Printing (HSP) EMEA conference. After an absence of more than two years, the event was held in Tallinn, Estonia (13-15 June).

The Regional ID Document awards recognise outstanding achievement and technical sophistication of a personal identification or travel document programme. The awards are designed to promote the best in system infrastructure and implementation of a government passport, identity or other secure identification scheme.

There are three categories in the ID section – for Best New Passport, Best New National ID Card and Best New ID or Travel Document. Uganda, Lithuania, Morocco and Belgium were the winners this year.