The unified electronic system ZAGS began working

In our publication dated May 15, 2017 it was reported that the Federal Tax Service of the RF is authorized to keep the Unified state register of acts of civil status.

The Unified state register of acts of civil status (EGR ZAGS) was established for execution of the Decree of the President of the RF from January 15, 2016 №13 and began operations since October 1, 2018. The Unified register was based on software developed by the FTS of the RF. State registration of all acts of civil status as well as amendments to existing entries and arrangements for exit of duplicates are performed in the Register.

Among benefits of such centralized storage system:

• on-line access for previously drawn up acts regardless of their location;
• possibility to check verification or uniqueness of the entered data;
• uniqueness of the numbers of incoming and outgoing documents;
• prospective new Internet services for citizens (e.g. representation of data from records of acts about themselves and under aged children on personal account);
• possible prospect of using data from the ZAGS register as main source of forming public register;
• cooperation of the ZAGS authorities from different regions of Russia only in electronic form;
• data representation to authorized bodies by automated method in electronic form.

All new records, created after October 1, 2018, have been already entered to the Unified state register. Records of documents created earlier, will be successively entered to the Register till 2021.

According to the data from the FTS RF, currently in Russia there are 5096 authorities providing state registration of acts of civil status, that have registered 2590 thousands acts for 6 months of 2018.