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EUROPEAN SYSTEM EURODAC DECLARED OPERATIONAL
21 January 2003 - Sagem Communication
| The European system Eurodac was declared operational on January 15th 2003. This system is aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Dublin Convention, which makes it possible to determine the State responsible for examining an asylum application by comparing fingerprints of asylum applicants and illegal immigrants. |
The Eurodac member States have now to transmit to a central system tenprint records from asylum applicants and from others people who may have irregularly crossed borders or who are staying illegally in any of the signatory countries. Four States have already chosen a SAGEM solution to collect and transmit records to Eurodac and also to process the results sent by the central system. According to UNHCR figures for 2001, the four States connected by SAGEM, which are currently Germany, Austria and France and shortly the UK when it replaces an interim solution with a SAGEM solution, will transmit more than two-thirds of the data received by the central system. This will make SAGEM the leader in terms of connection to Eurodac. SAGEM is able to provide its customers with an integrated solution able to process in parallel national searches and communications with Eurodac. It means the national data will be automatically duplicated and sent to Eurodac and the potential hit results from the central system will be analysed by the same operators on the same workstations. SAGEM solution allows a better, safer and more user friendly processing. SAGEM solutions are modular. A first connection can be rapidly delivered: a system was installed in two months following notification of the contract in France. Further extensions are possible e.g. in the UK, the delivery of an identification document (the ARC) incorporating fingerprint data within a smart card was added to the initial MetaMorpho system which was already operational, in order to meet customers new requirements. The confidence shown by these major customers attests to the flexibility of the technical solution provided across the range of our customised systems and bears testimony to SAGEM's leading position in the biometric market place.
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Sagem Communication is organized in two Business Groups: Mobile Communication and Broadband Communication.Mobile Communication Sagem brand mobile phones enjoys a strong presence in world markets – Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America – thanks to continuous technological innovations, including build-in cameras, colour screens, multimedia messaging, WAP, GPRS, modules and modems, etc. The Mobile Communication Business Group operates a Research & Development center in Cergy, northwest of Paris, and a production plant at Fougères, in the Brittany region of France. Industrial and commercial partnerships with other telecom players have opened access to new international markets, including China and Brazil. China: a joint venture with Bird, the leading domestic manufacturer of mobile phones, called "Ningbo Bird Sagem Electronics Corporation Ltd". Brazil: a joint subsidiary with Gradiente, to handle the production and marketing of Sagem mobile phones. Broadband Communication The Broadband Communication Business Group designs, develops and produces a complete line of products for the high-growth broadband, video and printing markets. A proven capability for innovation led to technological breakthroughs that give Sagem products high-profile positions in these highly competitive markets: the first DLP flat-screen TVs in Europe, the first embedded image correction in terminals, DECT wireless phones with mobile phone functions (SMS, hi-fi ring tones, directory, etc.), TVs and set-top boxes with build-in card readers, etc. The Broadband Communication Business Group also deploys a Europe-wide network of subsidiaries, called National Sales Organization (NSO), that distributes Sagem brand products to all major European retailers. Sagem has signed a number of agreements with OEMs, meaning that Sagem products are used by the world’s leading brands and most European operators. |
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