16:47 25.03.2013

Government OKs design of biometric passport for Ukrainian citizen

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The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the forms of documents that identify a person, or that confirm citizenship or a special status of the person.

This was stipulated in government resolution No. 185 of March 13 on some issues of the implementation of the Ukrainian law "On single state demographic register and documents that identify personality, or that confirm citizenship or a special status of a person."

When the law comes into force, the documents are to be produced, registered and is the form approved by this resolution and State information system of registration of individuals and their documentation.

Moreover, the cabinet said that the documents issued until adoption of this resolution will be valid within the term for which they were issued.

Driving licenses of the A, A1, B and B1 categories that were registered and issued after the law came into force are valid 20 years from the day of their issuing, and 10 years for other categories. Such certifications could be changed under the given order.

Until the new documents are introduced, such documents will be registered using previously existing forms.

In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers charged the Interior Ministry and State Migration Service with choosing executives to produce documents of the new form according to the Ukrainian law "On state procurements" and "Protection of economic competitiveness."

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