Prague, Aug 24 (CTK) – The Czech Senate passed on Wednesday a bill enabling the e-verification of EU citizens’ identity in situations such as cross-border e-transactions, and facilitating administrative proceedings in accordance with the relevant EU directive.
The bill will now be submitted to President Milos Zeman to sign it into a law.
The bill follows the EU’s directive known as eIDAS that binds the EU members to secure the e-verification of the identity of any EU citizen and to enable citizens settle their administrative affairs at a distance.
The bill defines the conditions of the use of e-signature.
It makes the methods of e-identification of individuals and corporations recognisable between EU member countries.
An e-signature will be a part of the new type of people’s e-ID cards which the Interior Ministry plans to introduce as of 2017 and which are to enable their holders to draw “their own” data from the register of inhabitants, the tax server and other administrative systems.
The Senate also passed on Wednesday an amendment to the law on free access to information, which provides for the launch of a National Catalogue of Open Data, accessible on the Internet.
