On 28 August, the Finnish border police launched a pilot project involving the use of a digital travel document Helsinki airport. The DTC (Digital Travel Credentials) pilot project is being implemented by the Finnish Border Guard in cooperation with Finnair, the police and the Finavia airport authority.
The DTC pilot project is aimed at passengers on Finnair flights to London, Edinburgh and Manchester. In particular, it allows you to use a specific border control point. A tool that speeds up and facilitates border controls at the airport.
According to the...
On 28 August, the Finnish border police launched a pilot project involving the use of a digital travel document Helsinki airport. The DTC (Digital Travel Credentials) pilot project is being implemented by the Finnish Border Guard in cooperation with Finnair, the police and the Finavia airport authority.
The DTC pilot project is aimed at passengers on Finnair flights to London, Edinburgh and Manchester. In particular, it allows you to use a specific border control point. A tool that speeds up and facilitates border controls at the airport.
According to the Finnish Border Guard information bulletin, a world first. This is the first large-scale trial of the DTC digital travel document. If successful, it could be rolled out across the European Union..
For the time being, only Finns are involved in the project
In this test phase, only Finnish citizens on Finnair flights can take part in this pilot project. Participation requires prior registration as a DTC user with a police licensing service point.
There is also another digital identification pilot project on return flights between Helsinki and Zagreb. As well as another full-scale test of the digital travel document on air routes between the Netherlands and Canada. All these projects produce data that is analysed by the European Commission as part of the future introduction of a digital identity, as desired by the Commission.