Certificates issued by civil registry offices in paper form will no longer be mandatory and will be provided only at the request of citizens. This was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper with reference to the Ministry of Justice.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Steering Group on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics met in Bangkok and announced plans to move to a digital service delivery model.
In 2018, the Unified State Register of Civil Registry (USR Civil Registry Office) was created in Russia, which unified existing regional electronic databases. The complete transition from paper archive to a central digital resource was completed in 2020.
The Unified State Civil Registry Office currently contains more than 560 million civil case records, including 524 million archival records converted to digital format, said Deputy Director of the Department for Development and Organization of Legal Aid and Legal Services of the Ministry of Justice Dmitry Svryuk.
The transition to a registration model for providing registration office services is currently underway. Within the framework of this model, the main document of legal significance will be an electronic extract from the Unified State Register of Civil Registry Offices. Paper certificates will only be issued at the request of citizens.
However, the obligation to issue paper certificates will remain for birth certificates of children under the age of 14, as this document is necessary to verify the child’s identity, according to the statement. material.
Digitization also affects the tax field. Starting next year, the taxpayer ID number will be linked to all bank accounts. These rules will not only affect new deposits, but also existing deposits. Read more in the article “VM”.