Belarusian Integrated Service and Settlement System (BISRS) is preparing for implementation

What is BIRS? This is a set of information systems and resources designed to identify users (individuals and legal entities) using identification cards (ID-cards) in order to provide them with electronic services (including administrative procedures). You can read about what BISRS represents on the website of the Ministry of Communications and Automation of the Republic of Belarus:https://www.mpt.gov.by/ru/o-bisrs.

The creation of BISRS is an important step towards the development of e-government, which will become a link between citizens, business and the state in the digital world. BISRS will facilitate and simplify the dialogue by reducing the bureaucratic requirements for the provision of e-services and revising its internal processes, taking into account the application of modern digital solutions.

The main components of the BISRS:

1. Unified identification system for individuals and legal entities (Identification System), including the client program. The identification system is designed to provide information systems of various state bodies and other organizations of the Republic of Belarus with an identification/authentication service and work with EDS.

2. Software contained on the ID-card for the purposes of identification and use of an electronic digital signature (cryptographic authentication token).

3. A complex that implements the service of digital signature of an ID-card.

4. ID-cards and readers.

5. National Automated Information System (OAIS).

6. The software and hardware complex of the National Public Key Infrastructure of Machine Readable Travel Documents for interaction with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which should simplify the process of identifying citizens of the Republic of Belarus when leaving the country.

Possible samples of a citizen's identification card (ID-card) are presented on the website of the Ministry of Communications and Automation of the Republic of Belarus:

https://www.mpt.gov.by/ru/biometricheskie-dokumenty

The ID-card will contain: a photo image (digital photo portrait) of the owner; surname, first name, patronymic (if any) of the owner; day, month, year of birth of the owner; the gender of the owner; place of birth of the owner; citizenship (nationality) of the owner (if any); an identification number; type of document; Document Number; code of the Republic of Belarus; day, month, year of issue of the document; code of the authority that issued the document; day, month, year of expiration of the document; machine readable zone; image of the signature of the owner who has reached the age of fourteen, or a foreigner who has acquired legal capacity in full in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus (except for cases when it is physically impossible to select a signature sample); a two-dimensional barcode (QR-code) containing encoded information about the owner of the document (surname, first name, patronymic (if any), day, month, year of birth), information about the document (number, day, month, year of issue, day, month, year of expiration) and identification number; an integrated circuit containing an electronic means of biometric identification with personal data of the owner of the biometric document in accordance with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and a cryptographic authentication token.

Possible examples of a biometric passport

Biometric passport of a citizen of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter - biometric passport) - a document confirming the citizenship and identity of the owner for the purpose of leaving the Republic of Belarus and entering the Republic of Belarus, as well as staying and residing outside the Republic of Belarus;