Area: "\u0160olstvo"
Competent authority: MIZS, MJU, SVRSDP
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1195
Initiative accepted and completed: '2022-04-01'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2022-01-26'
Initiative published: '2022-01-26'
Initiative submitted: '2022-01-26'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Government Office for Digital\
  \ Transformation and the Ministry of Education, Science and SportOn 3 March 2022,\
  \ the Government adopted a Regulation on the determination of electronic identification\
  \ means and the use of a central service for online registration and electronic\
  \ signature (the Regulation), which is based on Article 6 of the Law on Electronic\
  \ Identification and Trust Services (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,\
  \ No 121/21 and 189/21 - ZDU-1M). The Regulation operationally determines the following\
  \ electronic identification means: - a high-level means of identification on an\
  \ identity card,\r\n- a low-level means on the identity card,\r\n- a mid-level virtual\
  \ means (so-called smsPASS),\r\n- a low-level virtual means (concretisation of Article\
  \ 48 of the CEIAS). In accordance with Article 34 of the above-mentioned Regulation,\
  \ the smsPASS requires physical identification by an official person at an administrative\
  \ unit or diplomatic-consular mission of the Republic of Slovenia, and, in accordance\
  \ with the government decisions of last year, also at social work centres, units\
  \ of the Health Insurance Fund (ZZZS) and financial offices. According to Article\
  \ 32 of the Regulation, smsPASS can be issued to a citizen or foreigner who has\
  \ a registered permanent or temporary residence in the Republic of Slovenia and\
  \ who has reached the age of 15 at the time of application. The implementation of\
  \ the initiative, as expressed by the Ministry of Public Administration, which is\
  \ the issuer of the electronic identification means, would require a coordinated\
  \ action similar to the one carried out last year at the vaccination centres, where\
  \ authorised persons of the above-mentioned authorities would carry out the identification\
  \ of pupils and students at schools, and the applications would then be entered\
  \ into the back-office system of the registration service. Similar campaigns have\
  \ been carried out in previous years (namely for SIGEN-CA certificates) by some\
  \ administrative units in agreement with individual schools, but to our knowledge\
  \ this type of provision of certificates to users has not proved to be very successful,\
  \ as most users have only used the certificate to log in to the eHE application,\
  \ which they can now also do using their AAI identity, which they are very familiar\
  \ with, as they use it on a regular basis.\r\nSo, it is not as easy to award a smsPASS,\
  \ e.g. just attaching it to a certificate. As I said, the formalities of the Regulation\
  \ and the Electronic Identification and Trust Services Act have to be met, and there\
  \ is also the mandatory age of 15 years.\r\n \r\nWe believe that it would be more\
  \ appropriate and comprehensive to encourage young people to obtain a new biometric\
  \ identity card, which will contain a high-assurance means, a low-assurance means\
  \ and, in addition, a qualified certificate for electronic signature. This ID card\
  \ will therefore be used in cases where it is necessary to identify oneself in the\
  \ physical world; as a travel document; for national and cross-border identification\
  \ of the highest level of reliability; also envisaged for the exercise of health\
  \ insurance rights (via the low assurance means) and, in addition, for the creation\
  \ of a qualified electronic signature, the effect of which, in accordance with the\
  \ eIDAS Regulation, is equivalent to that of a handwritten signature. Another advantage\
  \ is that, in accordance with Article 9 of the Regulation, the high-level means\
  \ on the identity card is issued to a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia who has\
  \ reached the age of 12 at the time of application. However, it should be noted\
  \ here that the new biometric card cannot be obtained by a pupil/student who is\
  \ a foreigner. A different solution would have to be provided for them (smsPASS\
  \ is a partial solution).\r\nIt should also be borne in mind that the ID card will\
  \ be chargeable, so in certain cases it would also be necessary to think in the\
  \ direction of co-financing or issuing new ID cards to young people free of charge.\r\
  \nAs stated in the government's draft regulation, this will enable individual citizens\
  \ over the age of 12 to be e-identified and authenticated for access to electronic\
  \ services and to sign electronically. We consider this to be a key condition for\
  \ harnessing the development potential of e-commerce for the further development\
  \ of the digital economy and society within the EU internal market. It is about\
  \ enabling cross-border e-commerce, the existence of cross-border electronic identification\
  \ and ensuring efficient e-commerce for Slovenian citizens, public administration\
  \ and business entities."
Text file: 1195.txt
Title: SMS PASS award ceremony for primary and secondary school pupils
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1195
