📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of the Interior Ale Hojs and the Executive Director of Cetis Mag. Today in Celje Roman nidari signed an agreement on the design manufacture storage personalization and supply of new second-generation temporary and permanent residence permits and residence registration certificates for foreigners in the Republic of Slovenia. We are expected to start issuing new cards in early 2022.The value of the contract is EUR 15704900 including VAT and it is concluded for ten years. During this period the production of one million cards is planned .Residence permits for third-country nationals are already issued as biometric documents in a uniform format in all EU Member States and the new cards will be upgraded with additional security features to prevent counterfeiting .In the new uniform form cards will also be issued for citizens of the EU and the Swiss Confederation as well as for family members of EU citizens Slovenian citizens and citizens of the Swiss Confederation residing in the Republic of Slovenia. However the cards of EU citizens and the Swiss Confederation will be without biometric data.On this occasion the delegation of the Ministry visited part of the production of identity cards and travel documents and the hosts introduced them to the company and operations.At the beginning of November we signed a framework agreement with Cetis for the production of biometric identity cards . Citizens are expected to receive the first biometric cards at the end of March 2022.
