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Document: ROU-BO-05002

Title:

CARTE DE IDENTITATE _ IDENTITY CARD

Issuing Country:

ROU - Romania • ROMÂNIA •

Document Category:

B - Identity card

Document type:

O - ordinary document

Document version number:

05002

First issued on:

28/03/2025

Valid:

yes

Legal status / main purpose:

Identity card issued to nationals of: ROU - Romania • ROMÂNIA • Travel document valid in the European Union and in Schengen associated countries.

Overall construction:

card

Format width (mm):

86

Format height (mm):

54

Number of pages:

Validity

Maximum validity:

2 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

0 year(s)

Maximum age for validity:

2 year(s)

Validity-additional information:

chip does not contain fingerprints

Validity

Maximum validity:

4 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

2 year(s)

Maximum age for validity:

14 year(s)

Validity

Maximum validity:

5 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

14 year(s)

Maximum age for validity:

18 year(s)

Validity

Maximum validity:

10 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

18 year(s)

Validity

Maximum validity:

50 year(s)

Minimum age for validity:

70 year(s)

The normative acts governing the issuing of identity cards by the competent authorities are as follows: Government Emergency Decree No 97/2005 on the registration, domicile, place of residence and identity documents of Romanian citizens, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented; Government Decision No 295/2021 approving the methodological rules on the uniform application of the provisions of Government Emergency Decree No 97/2005 on the registration, domicile, place of residence and identity documents of Romanian citizens, and establishing the form and content of identity documents, proof of residence and property ownership documents; Government Decree No 69/2002 on the legal regime applicable to electronic identity cards, as subsequently amended and supplemented.

The electronic identity card is produced by the state-owned company "Imprimeria Națională S.A.", and is personalised centrally by the Single Passport Personalisation Centre. The electronic identity card is issued as follows: for minors aged from 0 to 12 years, without fingerprints; from the age of 12 years, minors are issued with an electronic identity card with fingerprints. Information on the holder's domicile/residential address in Romania is stored in electronic format on the chip.

Image 379910 of Recto - identity

Security features:

Substrate

Substrate:

PC (polycarbonate)

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT (365 nm)

Colours:

multi-coloured

Image 379914 of UV feature

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

OVD (optically variable device):

DID® - Diffractive Identification Device

OVD description:

protection of the holder's facial image

Image 379917 of OVD (optically variable device)

Security features:

Personal data

Image 379920 of Personal data

Security features:

Facial image

Photo type:

black & white

Image 379923 of Facial image

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 379928 of Printing technique
Image 379911 of Verso

Security features:

UV feature

Light:

UV LIGHT (365 nm)

Colours:

multi-coloured

Image 379935 of UV feature

Security features:

Additional safeguard

Image 379936 of Additional safeguard
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