Identification installed in cellphones will replace passports for electronic services

Prime Minister started today’s government session complaining about bankruptcy managers. ”For the purpose of collecting unpaid taxes, over the last 2 years 2100 proceedings have been filed, yet  only in rare cases the business entities recovered financially”, said Karen Karapetyan and assigned to improve the system. Among agenda issues, cabinet approved the project on “Identifying a person via their cellphone for provision of electronic services”. The idea is as follows – a person will have to activate a special card on cellphone, which will allow the latter to receive a notification from Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Act, or make bank payment, without having to produce an ID card. The Estonian experience, which has been adopted by many countries worldwide, will be introduced in Armenia through 3.7 million euro support allocated by EU.