The nationwide issuance of an electronic identity card starting this summer will come with a new tool: the citizen’s electronic card – a digital space managed by the Ministry of Interior, in which the original documents presented by the citizen, his face image and signature are scanned, so that he does not have to present them later .

The point is that The cost of issuing new chip ballots will be borne by the statewhich will be rolled out nationally this year, is not the only big change the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) has prepared this year.

SF script prepared by MAI for issuing identity cards

The draft government order submitted for public discussion by the Ministry of Internal Affairs establishes a transition from the current procedure, according to which a citizen presents himself to obtain an identity card and must fill out a standard application in holography, to the new procedure, which assumes that the request is automatically generated by the IT system, and the information needed to support this request is taken from existing IT systems in a compatible context.

Another provision regulates the concept of a citizen’s cardconsidering that currently the citizen presents supporting documents, copies of which are made only to confirm the provision of the service, these documents are not stored on the data carrier.

• “Since the creation of the citizen’s card the documents will be scanned and can be used laterat the time when the citizen applies for the provision of a service related to the registration of persons.
• They must be stored on the citizen’s card photo and holographic signature, as well as documents that are not available in electronic format (certifying the right of ownership or the right to use the building, documents issued by foreign bodies, etc.).” this is shown in the explanatory note.

In other words, among the documents currently requested for the issuance of identity cards, some (digitized) will be able to be automatically restored by the MAI, and others (those not in electronic format) will be photocopied, after the original, and then stored on this electronic card of the citizen. so that he is no longer obliged to provide them another time.

When will the electronic map be available and how much of this sci-fi scenario will come to life this year

To better understand what this electronic map is, who controls it, when it will be available, and how much of this sci-fi scenario will be realized this year, Talked to HotNews.roCătălin Giulescu, Chief of Police and Director General of the General Directorate of Personal Affairs (DEPABD) of the MAI.

• “The citizen’s card will include information that the public administration does not have because it is not digital or issued by the Romanian public administration.
• In particular, currently, in order to submit an application for the issuance of an identity card, the applicant must provide a certificate of marital status, a document confirming the presence of a home address, the address at which he will live.
• From autumn, civil status certificates will be available in digital form. But some documents, such as court decisions, may not be available digitally.
• Thus, photocopies of these decisions, documents issued for special situations, will be kept in the citizen’s file, so that the citizen no longer has the obligation to provide them later.
• Today, a citizen must provide them at every request.” an MAI official told HotNews.ro.

According to him, the management of the citizen’s electronic card will be carried out through the National Information System of Personification, which is also controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

• “Since the currently requested documents and certificates will be available digitally, we will no longer scan them, and the citizen will no longer be required to present them. But there will also be documents issued by foreign bodies, because we have a large diaspora.” Julescu also said.

When will the e-card be available?

• “In the pilot project from Cluj on issuing electronic ID cards, we created such a function. This will be generalized, and with the start of the expansion of the issuance of the electronic identity card at the national level, the electronic citizen card should be available in the summer.” – said Police Chief Catalin Julescu.

When civil registry records will be digitized and extracts from the land register will be available electronically

Two of currently requested documents when renewing an identity card after the expiration date is marriage certificate and extract from the land deedthe latter must be received no later than 30 days before the date of application.

• “I assure you that from this year there will be significant changes. I am extremely optimistic.
• It is currently technically impossible to change the procedure for issuing certificates. But we need legislation to complete the projects we have started.
• We will have a digitized act of civil status, I think, on October 1, 2023. From then on, civil status certificates will be digital.
• In the summer, we will contact ANCPI and computerize the extract from the land deed.” This was stated by DEPABD General Director Catalin Julescu for HotNews.ro.

The MAI official mainly refers to the Information System for the Issuance of Civil Status Documents (SIIEASC), a project developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2019, which involves the digitization of civil status documents for the past 100 years and the provision of easy access for citizens to civil status services.

The IT system was supposed to be operational at the end of last year, but in November Interior Minister Lucian Bode announced that the IT system was only 60% complete and that more than 66 million civil status documents had been digitized at that time.

The current draft of the MAI Government Resolution states that this IT system will be operational on September 24, 2023.

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