The ILO Governing Body, at its 289th Session, in order to
facilitate the early acceptance of the convention has selected for
use the minutiae-based method for fingerprint template
creation, truncation, and barcode storage (PDF417 2-D bar code) and
has approved document ILO SID-0002 (ILO document GB.289/7 Appendix
II), as embodying the standard for the fingerprint template required
under item (k) of Annex I of the Convention.