Registr zastupování – centrální evidence digitálních plných mocí

Register of Representations - central register of digital powers of attorney

The government has approved the project of the Register of Representations, a new central register of digital powers of attorney for dealing with the state administration. It will be a database of powers of attorney granted, in which authorities will verify the existence and validity of the relevant power of attorney themselves, which should eliminate the need to submit printed documents. The signing of powers of attorney should take place through special identification and authentication tool (in Czech Identita občana), and their granting and revoking should therefore be possible even remotely.

The government hopes that the project will not only simplify dealings with the authorities, but also clarify  situations in which powers of attorney are chained, and increase certainty regarding the duration of the representative's authorisation. It will be clear to the authorities whether the power of attorney has been revoked.

It should be possible to enter powers of attorney in the Register with a fixed duration or for an unlimited duration. This should facilitate situations in which representation is carried out on a regular basis, for example when an external accountant files a tax return. In this case, it will not be necessary to document the power of attorney each year, but it will be sufficient to upload it once into the system, where it will be stored until it is revoked.

The government expects the registry to be used not only by the business sector, but also by citizens. The first to be involved in the project is the Ministry of Transport. It expects the Register to facilitate the transfer of vehicle ownership.

The database should contain templates for powers of attorney for selected situations, into which users will only fill in their details. However, it should also be possible to upload one's own documents and thus benefit only from the advantages of digitisation.

The project is scheduled to start in 2024, but the possibility of using printed versions of documents will continue.

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Authors:

Dalibor Šimeček

Veronika Juhasová