Romanian identity card

The **Romanian identity card** (Romanian: *Carte de identitate*, informally called *Buletin*) is an official identity document issued to every Romanian citizen residing in Romania. It is compulsory to obtain the identity card from 14 years of age. Although Romanian citizens residing abroad are exempt from obtaining the identity card, if they intend to establish a temporary residence in Romania, they may then apply for a provisional identity document (Romanian: *Carte de identitate provizorie*), which is valid for one year (renewable).

The identity cards are issued by the Directorate for Persons Record and Databases Management, subordinated to the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

 Issued by
 First issued
 Purpose
 Valid in

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
* Armenia
* Bahrain
* French overseas territories
* Georgia
* Iraq
* Israel
* Jordan
* Kurdistan
* Kuwait
* Lebanon
* Montserrat (max. 14 days)
* Oman
* Palestine
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Syria
* Tabuk
* Tunisia (organized tours)
* Turkey
* United Arab Emirates
 Eligibility
 Expiration

*For ID-2 model:** No expiry, but not possible to travel outside Romania after 3 August 2031(age 55 or over)
* 10 years or until 3 August 2031 for ID cards issued after 2 August 2021 (age 25–54)
* 7 years (age 18–24)
 Size
ID-2 (model issued in the rest of the country)

## 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)
* Surname(s)
* Given name(s)
* Sex
* Names of the parents (replaced with the nationality since 2009)
* Date of birth (not explicitly written on ID-2, but included in CNP)
* Address
* Issuing authority (mostly "SPCLEP <City>")
* Validity (issuing date (DD.MM.YY) and expiration date (DD.MM.YYYY))

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

## CNP

The card contains the individual's *Cod Numeric Personal* (CNP), or Personal Numeric Code, a unique identifying number. The CNP is unique for each person which is used for taxation and other purposes

The CNP consist of 13 digits as follows:

* 1 digit for the sex of the Person. 1=Male & 2=Female born before 1999, 3 & 4 before 1899, 5 & 6 before 2099, 7 & 8 for foreign residents
* 6 digits for Date of birth YYMMDD
* 2 digits represents the place of birth (County)
* next 3 digits is a number between 001 and 999. Each number is allocated only once per person per day
* last digit is a control digit calculated from all the other 12 digits in the code as follows:

`(n1*2+n2*7+n3*9+n4*1+n5*4+n6*6+n7*3+n8*5+n9*8+n10*2+n11*7+n12*9)%11` if the result is 10 then the digit is 1, otherwise is the result.

The CNP was established in 1978, through a decree signed by Nicolae Ceaușescu.

## Future

Since 2011, the Romanian Government tried implementing the more secure Electronic (Biometric) Identity Cards in line with the requirements of European Commission for general use, but the project fell short for a variety of reasons including privacy, religious freedom, cost and implementation strategy. In October 2019, the government rolled out an initiative for citizens to opt-in for an Electronic ID card with the aim of country-wide adoption by 2021. The first pilot programme was initiated in Cluj with the rest of the country to follow after. Cards from the non-electronic current model will continue to be valid until their designated expiry date.

## Citizens who live abroad

Romanian citizens living abroad can apply for issuing first ID documents provided by law with diplomatic missions or consular offices in that State. The identity card shall be issued as follows:

* a) first identity card is issued to the age of 14;
* b) for people aged 14–18 years the term of validity of the card is 4 years;
* c) for people aged 18–25 years the term of validity of the card is 7 years;
* d) the cards issued after the age of 25 years are valid for 10 years.

After age 55, the identity card is issued permanently valid (by making the validity date in excess of 40 years).

## Travel

The **Identity card** can be used instead of the Passport for travel in a number of countries, see list in the infobox.