Biometrics

Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court has annulled finally the regulation for the admitting and discharge of patients from hospitals only after fingerprint identification.

The announcement will be published tomorrow after the personal data of the five members of the court is erased.

A 33-year-old Albanian has been arrested in Loutraki after a four and a half months investigation regarding a big quantity of drugs that had been found on October 28th last year.

 
According to the police, he and a still unknown number of accomplices had hidden 17,93 kilos of cannabis and 93,48 gr. of cocaine.

Bulgaria's Health Ministry has postponed the introduction of fingerprint identification in the outpatient sector.

The decision will protect the healthcare system from collapse in terms of medical, technical, information and financial stability, stated Health Minister Ilko Semerdzhiev.

An Afghan asylum-seeker suspected of raping and killing a 19-year-old university student in Freiburg was also convicted of attempting to kill another woman in Greece but was released early from prison, Germany's top security official said Thursday.

The Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that fingerprint identification in hospitals is not valid.

The decision of the three-member court was taken on Tuesday and fingerprint identification is terminated until the final ruling, reported BGNES.

A man confessed on Nov. 17 to sending a bomb-laden package to his father's office, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

Previously, Ali Can Kurdaş had denied being the person in the Nov. 14 surveillance camera footage. 

The European Commission has said it will refer Bulgaria to the Court of Justice of the EU for non-implementation of obligations it has assumed under the common law related to e-documents.

In a statement dated Monday, the Commission cites "non-implementation of the obligation to create a Single Point of Contact" for e-passports and e-residence permits.

BELGRADE - Traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in a forest in suburban Belgrade, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Monday following a DNA analysis of a hand-held rocket launcher, hand grenades and an ammunition package.

The new system for fingerprint authentication has been introduced in all health facilities in Bulgaria as of November 1.

As of Tuesday, all hospitals operating with the National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) will have to use the devices and register patients with them, if hospitals are to be paid for their activities at the end of each month.

Turkey will begin issuing new biometric passports in November in a bid to fulfill one of the remaining criteria required by the European Union to grant a visa waiver to Turkish citizens as part of March 18 deal between Ankara and Brussels, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Oct. 31.