The personal interests and property statement will be submitted by functionaries working in public institutions online, by using the digital signature, IPN reports, with reference to a Government decision on the use of digital signature.

Thus, the National Integrity Authority within a month is to present the list of persons responsible for the collection of statements and to approve the plan for training these persons to fill out the Electronic Register of persons who are obliged to declare the personal interests and property.

The qualified advanced digital signature will be issued by the State Chancellery through the state-run Special Telecommunications Center.

The public institutions are to complete the Electronic Register by October 1, 2017. Among those who must submit such statements are persons who hold public posts, village and district councilors, MPs, including the deputies of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia, members of the Superior Council of Magistracy and of the Superior Council of Prosecutors, non-standing members of the Central Election Commission, managers of public organizations and their deputies.

The officers of the Security and Intelligence Service, investigation officers of special subdivisions of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense, the National Anticorruption Authority and other law enforcement agencies and the Customs Service submit such statements to the National Integrity Authority for examination, but these are not made public.

About 70,000 persons are obliged to present personal interests and property statements to the National Integrity Authority. The digital signature will have a period of validity of a year and will cost about 125 lei. A sum of almost 9 million lei is needed to implement this decision.