Development of an european-wide citizen javacard to support administrative processes by the use of the electronic signature and the biometric fingerprint sensor: A case study of legal implications

Abstract

This paper describes the results of the project Facilitating Administrative Services for Mobile Europeans (FASME), which aims to develop a Javacard prototype, i.e. a chip card on the basis of the Java programming language which is not platform dependent. The Javacard will allow for specific administrative tasks such as the registration and de-registration of addresses and reregistering motor vehicles to be safely and flexibly carried out throughout Europe. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers.