KRANJ, BELGRADE, 7.11.2007 – Genis has signed an agreement on business-technical co-operation in the area of information solutions for electronic conducting of public administration with Serbian company Arius a.d. This agreement deals with joint participation of the two companies at tenders for electronic conducting of public administration in Serbia and Serbian Krajina. The contract represents an important step in transferring Slovenian knowledge and experience in electronic conducting of public administration to the countries in the region.
Within the agreement  Arius (www.arius.co.yu) is in charge of acquiring projects and maintaining solutions. Genis will take care of project management, specifications preparation and designing business and data models. However, both companies will co-operate in the construction and implementation of information solutions in public administration operations.

“ Arius wants to offer top products to the Serbian public administration, that is why we turned to Slovenian knowledge and experience, since Slovenia is second in EU, in the field of electronic public administration services,”, explained Slobodan Paunović, director of the Arius a.d.

“Genis offers standard and reliable electronic operation to the public administrations in the region. It is mainly about transferring good practices from Slovenia and implementing a registry organized public administration approach”, emphasized Stane Štefančič, director of  Genis.

The main areas of co-operation are basic national population registers, for example a Central Population Register, a Population register and a Permanent Population register. Thus Genis will also co-operate in the reorganization of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the area of internal administrative affairs into a registry organized public administration. The companies will also co-operate in the area of information support for issuing biometric passports and other personal documents.

Genis has already made all basic national registers for Slovenian public administration based on the architecture of central data storage on population and the SOA concept which enables the connection of services and data to all legitimate users of population data. The basic register is the Central Population Register (CPR) which is connected with other registers, information systems and public administration applications. According to legislation, CPR data is  used for statistical purposes, internal affairs, health care and insurance, taxes and customs, national security, surveying, regional planning and ecological conservation, employment and workforce market, pension and disability insurance, administration of justice, education, social care and other users and databases administrators. The CPR is, along with other registers, such as the Population Register, the Permanent Population Register, the Personal Documents Register and others, the basis for the removal of administrative obstacles and thus the efficient and citizen-friendly operation of Slovenian public administration.