No information on the holder’s domicile or temporary residence will be included in the identity card, including the provisional one. The exclusion of these data will relieve holders from the obligation to exchange their documents each time they change their place of residence. Information on the holder’s patronymic will also not be included. The Parliament approved today in its final reading legislative measures for putting the new ID cards into circulation, IPN reports.
Data on domicile, residence or patronymic will be accessible in the State Population Register through the interoperability platform (MConnect).
The draft also provides for an exemption from the payment of the state fee for the registration of newborn children at their domicile and/or temporary residence upon their initial registration in the State Population Register. Children under the age of 14, who do not have an identity document, will also benefit from the same facility when they are registered in the State Population Register after updating the data on their birth certificate.
The document also contains provisions aimed at exempting foreign or stateless children who have entered the territory of the Republic of Moldova without being accompanied by an adult or have been left on the territory of the Republic of Moldova without a legal document from paying the state tax.
The changes also cover the way in which the names of national minorities are included in official documents. Persons belonging to national minorities will have the right to use their names in the form accepted in their mother tongue. The document also stipulates that when foreigners’ names and surnames are entered on residence cards, they are not translated or transliterated, but are spelled according to the Latin spelling of the national passport or travel document issued by the competent foreign authorities.
In addition to the personal data of the beneficiary, the ID card also contains an electronic signature, valid for five years, which will allow access to the data in electronic format.
According to data provided by the Public Services Agency, over 50 thousand people have applied for identity cards so far. Identity cards will be issued free of charge to one million people, with the costs being covered by the ASP budget. Subsequently, the fee for issuing ID cards will be 290 lei.
