Area: .nan
Competent authority: MNZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1149
Initiative accepted and completed: '2021-07-13'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2021-07-08'
Initiative published: '2021-07-08'
Initiative submitted: '2021-07-07'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of the Interior:We\
  \ do not support the proposal. The Ministry of the Interior, as the authority responsible\
  \ for the enforcement of the Identity Card Act (Official Gazette of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia, No 35/11 and 41/21), explains that the purpose of destroying an old\
  \ identity card when applying for a new one is to prevent any abuse that could result\
  \ from the simultaneous possession of two identical identification documents. The\
  \ law already provides in Article 11(2) that an official may, at the express request\
  \ of a citizen, destroy an identity card only when a new one has been issued, if\
  \ there is a reason for doing so on the grounds of a daily border crossing or for\
  \ any other justifiable reason. In such a case, the new identity card must be served\
  \ at the authority responsible for issuing the identity card (and not by post).\
  \ Furthermore, the Regulation on the Enforcement of the Law on Identity Cards (Official\
  \ Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 52/13 and 41/21 - ZOIzk-1A) provides in\
  \ Article 8(3) that if an identity card is handed over to the competent authority\
  \ for destruction in accordance with the law only after a new identity card has\
  \ been served, the old identity card shall be recorded as invalid in the register\
  \ of issued identity cards with the following wording: 'The identity card may be\
  \ used until a new one has been served.' According to the above, a solution already\
  \ exists for cases where a citizen needs an old identity card until a new one is\
  \ issued, but it does not apply across the board, but only upon explicit request\
  \ and for a justified reason. A citizen can also obtain, on request, a certificate\
  \ of application for an identity card, but such a certificate is not in itself a\
  \ substitute for an identity card in its capacity as a document of identity, nationality\
  \ and border crossing, since it is not issued in the form prescribed by international\
  \ standards for the issue of identity cards and does not have the appropriate security\
  \ features. Nevertheless, in our assessment, such a certificate, together with a\
  \ physically destroyed (punched) identity card, could be sufficient to identify\
  \ an individual when collecting postal items, if this were permitted by the Post\
  \ Slovenije's rules of operation, over which the Ministry has no influence. It is\
  \ not possible to issue a temporary certificate in the form of a temporary identity\
  \ card, because even a temporary identity card, given its functionalities as a public\
  \ document to prove identity, nationality and border crossing, and after 3 January\
  \ 2022 also as an electronic identification, would have to have the appropriate\
  \ formality and protections, which a certificate in A4 format cannot provide. The\
  \ legal solutions are therefore also based on the fact that an identity card can\
  \ be replaced by a new one at any time (including before expiry), allowing the citizen\
  \ to apply at a time when he or she does not need the document, while the legislation\
  \ also allows citizens to submit an application which is treated as a priority,\
  \ enabling them to obtain a new identity card immediately. If the application is\
  \ urgent, the identity card is produced and handed over to the post office within\
  \ one working day at the latest.   \r\n "
Text file: 1149.txt
Title: Temporary identity card
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1149
