Local authorities in Rhineland-Palatinate have recently started offering selected online citizen services almost everywhere, which can be processed completely digitally with the new ID card.
Over 70 percent of administrations have now opened access for electronic application processing.
This makes Rhineland-Palatinate the first federal state to offer these services on such a broad basis.
REINER SCT has provided a total of 30,000 comfort readers for the launch of the project as part of a grant from the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
“We are very pleased to be able to support the online citizen portal of Rhineland-Palatinate and thus contribute to ensuring that more and more citizens can use electronic administrative services,” says Andreas Staiger, Managing Director of REINER SCT.
As a first step, applications for certificates of good conduct, birth or death certificates or registration and residence certificates can now be made online in Rhineland-Palatinate, for example, as well as pre-registrations for marriages.
Since the introduction of the new ID card in Germany in 2010, almost 800,000 new ID cards have been issued in Rhineland-Palatinate.
This means that 20 percent of Rhineland-Palatinate citizens are already able to conveniently process administrative services electronically from home or on the move, regardless of opening hours.
However, the prerequisite for this is that the eID function of the new ID card, which is activated “ex works”, remains activated and was not deactivated when the ID card was issued at the registration office at the suggestion of the authority employee or at the request of the holder.
Comfort reader brings security
In order to save themselves the trip to the town hall in future and to be able to submit applications online, citizens will need the new ID card with activated eID function, the ID card software available free of charge on the Internet and a chip card reader.
“We recommend the use of a comfort reader, which provides the highest level of security for digital administrative processes,” says Staiger. About REINER SCT REINER SCT has been developing, manufacturing and distributing readers for smart cards since 1997.
The company specializes in high-quality home banking security solutions for banks and their customers as well as intuitive time recording and access control systems for small and medium-sized companies.
REINER SCT develops and produces in Germany and offers all services from a single source, including sales and end customer service.
With the new chip card readers for the electronic ID card, REINER SCT is a pioneer for the innovative use of IT in the public sector. The company operates worldwide and is part of the REINER Group, which has been family-owned since 1913. It is based in Furtwangen in the Black Forest and employs 45 people. Further information can be found at: www.reiner-sct.com.
