“ID card cannot last for 10 years”

Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 12:00 Wednesday, 08 February 2012 12:00

Written by China Times

The Dutch Identity card is too fragile to last for 10 years. Minister Liesbeth Spies (Domestic Affairs) writes to the Second Chamber. The chamber has voted to extend it from 5 to 10 years, but according to the minister it is temporarily not possible.

“The identity is in fact more vulnerable than the passport, both because this document is not protected with a cover and the visa pages and also the identity card in the format of credit card is used differently by their owners,” she writes.

A research on the cards which have been used for 5 years at most showed that 30 percent of the cards contain cracks. It resulted in problems mostly during reading of the chip, so the image could not be verified.