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Negotiators lower finger printing age of refugees to six
By EUobserver
EU institutional negotiators on Tuesday (19 June) reached an informal agreement on reforming Eurodac, a database that contains the fingerprints of asylum seekers. It means the age for obtaining fingerprints and facial images of minors will be lowered from 14 to 6 years, in a move that has generated controversy among some NGOs. The deal still needs approval from EU states and the European parliament before becoming law.