There are currently about 4.2 million people with valid passports or identity cards issued by the Finnish Police or by a Finnish diplomatic or consular mission that issues passports and identity cards. By linking the digital identification application to a valid document and the information it holds, it is possible to make use of the same face-to-face identification of a person that is already carried out when issuing a passport or identity card. This will avoid overlapping costs, but will also help to distribute the digital identification application as widely as possible as soon as it is introduced.
It is proposed that the costs of maintaining the digital identification application be covered as part of the price of passports and identity cards in accordance with the Act on Criteria for Charges Payable to the State. However, using the digital identification application to access services would be free of charge.