In Moldova, identity cards (bulletin) will be renewed at the end of March 2025. At a meeting today, November 13, the government approved the technical requirements and security standards of a new document – the identity card.
general secretary of the government Arturo Miza He said the new identity cards will be equipped with built-in electronic storage media to store the citizen’s electronic signature. This will allow official documents to be signed and government services and platforms to be used remotely.
The DNI can be used instead of a foreign passport to travel to countries that recognize this document, for example, to the countries of the European Union.
Among the innovations is the exclusion of information about the place of residence, which will prevent citizens from having to change their document when changing registration.
Recall that earlier Moldovan human rights activists asked parliament to reconsider the bill, which involves making changes to the law on identification documents of the national passport system. They criticized deputies for the lack of public consultations and noted that the new law discriminates against national minorities living in Moldova. First of all, Russian speakers. In particular, human rights activists believe that citizens should have the right to include patronymic names in documents if they wish. In addition, they consider it necessary to preserve the Russian language in the names of the fields of the document (in the new version there will be designations in Romanian and English).
Human rights activists called on the Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Ombudsman to support this call, and on the delegations of the EU, the UN, the OSCE and the representative office of the Council of Europe in Chisinau to express their concern that the bill does not meet human rights standards. Human rights and national minorities.
