Romanian identity card

Carte de identitate
The model issued starting with 2009, that specifies the Romanian nationality and not the parent's first name
Issued by	Romania
Valid in	Romania  European Union member states EEA/EFTA states:  Iceland  Liechtenstein  Norway  Switzerland  Albania  Andorra  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Canary Islands  Croatia  Faroe Islands  Gibraltar  Guernsey  Isle of Man  Jersey  Macedonia  Monaco  Montenegro  San Marino  Serbia  Vatican City
Type of document	Identity card, optional replacement for passport in the listed countries
Purpose	proof of identity
Eligibility requirements	Romanian citizen over 14 years of age (mandantory)
Expiration	4 years 5 years 10 years 50 years

The Identity card (Romanian: Carte de identitate) is the document issued to every Romanian citizen at 14 years of age (it is compulsory at 14). The only exemption are Romanian citizens domiciled abroad. If they establish a temporary residence in Romania, then they may apply for a "Carte de identitate provizorie", which is valid for one year (renewable).

The Identity Card is issued by The National Inspectorate for Person's Identity, subordinated to the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior.

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)
• Last name
• First name(s)
• Sex
• Parent's first name(s) (usually, the mother's middle name (if any) is not displayed (but registered into the database), due to lack of space)
• Place of birth
• Address
• Issuing authority
• Validity (issuing date (DD.MM.YY) and expiration date (DD.MM.YYY))

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

Series of the ID card

The series of the ID card are formed of two letters, representing the abbreviation of the county (the abbreviation is sometimes the same as the license plate indicative) or of the county's seat that issued the document.

City	County	ID series	License plate
Bucureşti	-	DP, DR, DT, RD, RR, RT, RX	B
Alba Iulia	Alba	AX	AB
Alexandria	Teleorman	TR	TR
Arad	Arad	AR	AR
Bacău	Bacău	XC	BC
Baia Mare	Maramureş	MM	MM
Bistriţa	Bistriţa-Năsăud	XB	BN
Botoşani	Botoşani	XT	BT
Braşov	Braşov	BV	BV
Brăila	Brăila	XR	BR
Buftea	Ilfov	IF	IF
Buzău	Buzău	XZ	BZ
Călăraşi	Călăraşi	KL	CL
Cluj-Napoca	Cluj	KX	CJ
Constanţa	Constanţa	KT	CT
Craiova	Dolj	DX	DJ
Deva	Hunedoara	HD	HD
Drobeta Turnu Severin	Mehedinţi	MH	MH
Focşani	Vrancea	VN	VN
Galaţi	Galaţi	GL	GL
Giurgiu	Giurgiu	GG	GR
Iaşi	Iaşi	MX	IS
Miercurea Ciuc	Harghita	HR	HR
Oradea	Bihor	XH	BH
Piatra Neamţ	Neamţ	NT	NT
Piteşti	Argeş	AS	AG
Ploieşti	Prahova	PH, PX	PH
Reşiţa	Caraş-Severin	KS	CS
Râmnicu Vâlcea	Vâlcea	VX	VL
Satu Mare	Satu Mare	SM	SM
Sfântu Gheorghe	Covasna	KV	CV
Sibiu	Sibiu	SB	SB
Slatina	Olt	OT	OT
Slobozia	Ialomiţa	SZ	IL
Suceava	Suceava	SV	SV
Timişoara	Timiş	TM	TM
Târgovişte	Dâmboviţa	DD	DB
Târgu Jiu	Gorj	GZ	GJ
Târgu Mureş	Mureş	MS	MS
Tulcea	Tulcea	TC	TL
Vaslui	Vaslui	VS	VS
Zalău	Sălaj	SX	SJ

CNP

One of the most important informations in this card is CNP (Cod Numeric Personal = Numeric Personal Code).

CNP consist of 13 digits as follows:

• 1 digit for sex and century of birth: 1, 3, and 5 = male; 2, 4, and 6 = female. 1 and 2 = 20th century, 3 and 4 = 19th century, and 5 and 6 = 21st century. (For legal residents the numbers 7 and 8 are used to encode the sex of the person having the residence permit);
• 6 digits for birth date in the format YYMMDD
• 2 digits for place of birth (the code for the county) (For legal residents the numbers encode the region where the person having the residence permit comes from);
• 3 other digits
• 1 control digit

CNP is unique for each person, is given at birth and never changed (except special cases of erroneous attribution, sex change or changing the status from legal resident to citizen).

Future

Romania has decided to introduce the Electronic Identification Cards as of January 1, 2011, however the plan to introduce Identity Cards were delayed by two years. As of July 1, 2010 the pilot program of setting up the electronic system for the issuance of the electronic identity card will be initiated. As part of the normative act the central and local authorities as well as the county decentralized services are required to acquire the necessary equipments and programs for the citizens to be able to use without any restrictions the electronic identity card. The step by step program are as follows:

• in the county residence municipalities until December 31, 2012
• in the other municipalities and towns until December 31, 2013
• in communes until December 31, 2014

Travel

The Identity card can be used instead of the Passport to travel within the  European Union, EEA/EFTA states:  Iceland  Liechtenstein  Norway  Switzerland, and the following countries:  Albania  Andorra  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Canary Islands  Croatia  Faroe Islands  Gibraltar  Guernsey  Isle of Man  Jersey  Macedonia  Monaco  Montenegro  San Marino  Serbia  Vatican City^[1]

Gallery

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  The Romanian identity card. This is the old model, when the country code was ROM and not ROU as in present.

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  The Romanian identity card. This is the new model, with the country code ROU.

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  The model issued starting with 2009, that specifies the Romanian nationality.

References

• The National Inspectorate for Person's Identity
• The Border Police
• Regulations on the electronic identity cards The Government of Romania

1. ^ Visa requirements for Romanian citizens