Romanian identity card

The Identity card (Romanian: Carte de identitate) is the document issued to every Romanian citizen at 14 years of age (it is compulsory at 14). The only exemption are Romanian citizens domiciled abroad. If they establish a temporary residence in Romania, then they may apply for a "Carte de identitate provizorie", which is valid for one year (renewable).

The Identity Card is issued by The National Inspectorate for Person's Identity, subordinated to the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior.

Information provided

• Series and number of the ID card (changes every time the bearer changes the ID card)
• CNP (Romanian: Cod Numeric Personal; English: Personal Numerical Code) the same for every ID card of the individual (see below)
• Last name
• First name(s)
• Sex
• Parent's first name(s) (usually, the mother's middle name (if any) is not displayed (but registered into the database), due to lack of space)
• Place of birth
• Address
• Issuing authority
• Validity (issuing date (DD.MM.YY) and expiration date (DD.MM.YYY))

Also it has two rows of optical readable information, like the passports.

Series of the ID card

The series of the ID card are formed of two letters, representing the abbreviation of the county (the abbreviation is sometimes the same as the license plate indicative) or of the county's seat that issued the document.

CNP

One of the most important informations in this card is CNP (Cod Numeric Personal = Numeric Personal Code).

CNP consist of 13 digits as follows:

• 1 digit for sex and century of birth: 1, 3, and 5 = male; 2, 4, and 6 = female. 1 and 2 = 20th century, 3 and 4 = 19th century, and 5 and 6 = 21st century. (For legal residents the numbers 7 and 8 are used to encode the sex of the person having the residence permit);
• 6 digits for birth date in the format YYMMDD
• 2 digits for place of birth (the code for the county) (For legal residents the numbers encode the region where the person having the residence permit comes from);
• 3 other digits
• 1 control digit

CNP is unique for each person, is given at birth and never changed (except special cases of erroneous attribution, sex change or changing the status from legal resident to citizen).

Future

Romania has decided to introduce the Electronic Identification Cards as of January 1, 2011, however the plan to introduce Identity Cards were delayed by two years. As of July 1, 2010 the pilot program of setting up the electronic system for the issuance of the electronic identity card will be initiated. As part of the normative act the central and local authorities as well as the county decentralized services are required to acquire the necessary equipments and programs for the citizens to be able to use without any restrictions the electronic identity card. The step by step program are as follows:

• in the county residence municipalities until December 31, 2012
• in the other municipalities and towns until December 31, 2013
• in communes until December 31, 2014

Travel

The Identity card can be used instead of the Passport to travel within the  European Union, EEA/EFTA states:  Iceland  Liechtenstein  Norway  Switzerland, and the following countries:  Albania  Andorra  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Canary Islands  Croatia  Faroe Islands  Gibraltar  Guernsey  Isle of Man  Jersey  Macedonia  Monaco  Montenegro  San Marino  Serbia  Vatican City^[1]

Gallery

References

• The National Inspectorate for Person's Identity
• The Border Police
• Regulations on the electronic identity cards The Government of Romania