Clearly, well maybe not clearly because we're talking about government, but clearly what this paragraph is intended to do is to prevent U.S. citizens from photographing minors in other countries and using the other country's "perhaps less than perfect indentifications systems" to their advantage to circumvent the entire 2257 legislation.

So as I read it, the legislation says, if Polish producer photographs Polish model in Poland, then they are required to have appropriate Polish government-issued age verification documents, not just as passport, as was previously proposed. So if the ABC card is the ID card they use in Poland to identify a person as an adult, then that's the card the producer can accept and maintain in their records.

They were trying to soften their previous unreasonable proposed demand of requiring anyone who was not an American to show up at a photo shoot with a passport as the only acceptable means of identifying and verifying non-Americans.

Now, if an American is hired to fly over to Poland to do that shoot in the above example, I haven't got a fucking clue. It's starting to sound like "who's on first."

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