I suspect there's a good reason to leave out your height (while still
retaining it in the passport database).

It makes it harder for people to use stolen passports. They can alter their
appearance (to some extent), but then be caught on the basis of a
discrepancy in height.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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>In short, EU = the political aspects, EC the technical ones. BTW, our
>passports bear the mention "European Community".

I renewed my passport a couple of weeks ago.  The old one said "European
Community", whereas the new one says "European Union".  The old one also had
my height as 174 cm, the new one didn't have my height at all.

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