The Ministry of Finance has put forward a proposal for the Regulation on the Content of Data in Declarations and in the Central Population Registry for public consultation, which specifies how sensitive personal data will be managed in the future and how households will be formed. The regulation is being adopted based on the Law on the Central Population Registry, which has already come into effect, and aims to consolidate social, economic, educational, housing, and other data about the population from various registers into a unified, up-to-date, and reliable system. The registry also contains data on kinship and household information, while a special part of the registry will include data obtained based on citizens’ declarations, such as those regarding common-law partnerships or informal partnerships, religion, and mother tongue, as well as contact information.
According to the proposed regulation, households will be automatically formed based on already existing official data: residence, addresses, marital status, kinship, or the birth of children. When such a household is generated, the system will automatically assign it an identification code. Any change in official data, relocation, change of kinship, birth, or death will automatically lead to the deactivation of the old household and the creation of a new one.
However, anything that deviates from this standard model will require a declaration. Citizens will be able to report common-law partnerships or informal life partnerships, religion, mother tongue, nationality, and contact information themselves, if they wish. Declarations will also be used to report households that would not be automatically generated: for example, when multiple individuals wish to be one household even though they are not related, when a household includes multiple residential units, or when members live at different addresses. In these cases, the declaration determines the composition of the household and the corresponding code.
