5. pants

Enhanced

Standards for Travel Documents:

a. The Ministry of Interior of

the Republic of Latvia intends to issue travel documents

through a central issuing authority that is subject to strict

audit and accountability mechanisms under domestic law. The

Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to

notify the Department of Homeland Security without ungrounded

delay about any findings of such audits that has or may have

the potential to jeopardize the security of travel documents or

issuance of such documents. The Participants intend to protect

any information obtained as a result of such audits against any

unauthorized disclosure.

b. The Ministry of the Interior

of the Republic of Latvia, in cooperation with other competent

authorities of the Republic of Latvia, intends to continue to

issue travel documents that comply with ICAO requirements.

c. The Ministry of the Interior

of the Republic of Latvia, in cooperation with other competent

authorities of the Republic of Latvia, intends to issue travel

documents that have unique, non-recurring identifying numbers

affixed at the time of manufacture.

d. The Ministry of the Interior

of the Republic of Latvia understands that, in the event that

the Republic of Latvia is designated as a VWP country, only

Latvian citizens in possession of electronic passports (i.e.,

machine readable passports with both a digitized photograph and

an electronically readable chip containing designated travel

document data) will be allowed to travel to the United States

under the VWP.