Division of the National Passport Center

The National Passport Center is divided in five (5) Sections.

Purviews


1st Data Base Input and Processing Section

• Receives the applications and the other supporting documents from the Police Services and Consulates, where they have been deposited from those interested.
• Puts them in at the data base for further processing.
• Sends the passports that have been issued and the supporting documents for the delivery to the beneficiaries and the filing respectively.
• Prepares the legal frame, which has passports as an object and leads the Regional Services of the Hellenic Police and other authorized State Authorities for the application of this legislation.
• Has the responsibility of the security of the Division's facilities.
  

2nd Check and Approval Section

• Checks the completeness and the originality of the supporting documents and their correct registration in the processing electronical system.
• Ascertains the existence of the legal conditions for the passport's issue to those interested and approves or rejects the demands.
  

3rd Print and Quality Control Section

• Prints passports, checks their quality and the correctness of the recorded personal data and also care for the distraction of those which don't have the necessary terms.
• Supplies the Service with the necessary consumables and other materials for the passport's issue and cares for their safeguard and management.
• Cares for the determination of the passports booklet's safety specifications.
  

4th Data processing Section

• Determines the electronic data processing operations which are necessary for the accomplishment of the Division's mission and maintains the passports and statistic electronic data base.
• Records in data bases the stolen, lost and invalidated passports.
• Observes the correct operation of the central computer system of the National Passport Center and looks after its maintenance.
  

5th Emergency Issue Section

• Has the patnesses of the other sections, as far as it exclusively concerns the passports issue in priority, according to the Common Minister Decision.