The eDokladovka application, which will allow you to have your personal documents stored on your mobile phone, should be available at the end of this year, at the latest at the beginning of next year, said Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization Ivan Bartoš. If this actually happens, the Czech Republic will be about a year ahead of the eIDAS 2.0 regulation, which was approved by the European Union and which mandates that member states allow their citizens to use the digital form of documents from 2025. Unfortunately, as is usual, the EU has ordered something, but the form can be chosen by individual states. However, if the application complies with the eIDAS 2.0 regulation, then it should not be a problem to use it throughout the EU.
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However, in order not to get ahead of ourselves, let's take a look at what kind of solution the Czech Republic is preparing in the form of the eDokladovka application, which is being helped to develop by the state printer of valuables, which issues documents for citizens. In the first phase, which should take place at the end of this year, citizens of the Czech Republic will have the opportunity to upload their identity card and driver's license to the application, with the fact that later the application should also enable communication with authorities and companies throughout the EU. The eDocument complies with the eIDAS 2.0 regulation and should therefore really work throughout the EU. As a result, documents in your mobile phone should serve you in the eDokladovka application just as well in the Czech Republic as, for example, in Italy or Austria.
What eDokladovka offers
- The application will be available for practically all current phones (Android and iOS),
- data exchange will take place first by scanning a QR code and then using bluetooth transmission,
- document verification will also work in offline mode,
- the user can verify what data he provides for review,
- the security of data storage and the method of data exchange between the application of the holder and the verifier is based on the globally recognized, interoperable standard ISO 18013/5,
- the application has active protection against reverse engineering and also counts on the protection of users against hacker attacks.
Something similar would be needed in Slovakia.
Reinventing a bike with half the functionality for ten times the price. In short, this is a Czech tradition.
Above all, let me upload my armory and that pile of weapons licenses... there are really a lot of those licenses
eDokladovka, EZ card... We have this app again and again. And why don't we have one central for all? Well, because no one would complain about it..
I am interested in Europe, this year we tried to succeed with e-prescriptions in Italy and Germany, and they told us that e-prescriptions do not work for them yet and will not work immediately, so that it is not the same with documents and then for us in the year our wonderful journalists did not write about the problems our fellow citizens got into abroad. :-)
Again, a million semi-functional useless overpriced applications, when all you need is one that is already in the system and works great, which was shown during the cold, when I had a vaccination certificate nicely in Apple WalletI wouldn't even think of using that Czech bazmek, even though I would otherwise welcome digital documents.
Hopefully, it won't be long before documents can be dragged from eDokladovka right into native applications - such as, for example, a covid certificate.
I have been calling for this for about 2 years now. For example, I don't carry my wallet with me at all and I have everything on my mobile phone. I don't carry my driver's license or ID. At least I'll have it legal next year.