LJUBLJANA, KRANJ, 2.7.2008 – The Ministry of the Interior hosted 6. regular meeting of project group of RISER (Registry Information Service on European Residents) international project from 30.6. to 1.7.2008. The task of the RISER project is construction of technical infrastructure and electronic services for exchange of data on residence addresses of individuals among EU countries and also identifying legal, organizational and semantic conditions for operation of the data exchange system at the same time.

Ministry of the Interior as the Central Population Register manager and company Genis d.o.o. as contractor for execution of international data exchange service for RISER services users have become members of the RISER consortium in June this year. Cooperation in interoperability project with the purpose of exchange of data on residence addresses of individuals among EU member countries is in question.
"Slovenia is interesting for RISER since it has data infrastructure, quality official data in registers and well established system of population registration and data flow. Although we are a small country we can offer good practice and reliable services also in European Union," said Irena Tršinar, secretary at the Ministry of the Interior.

Project is in pilot phase, under auspices of European commission and eTEN (Trans European Telecommunications Networking) program. Members of the project group are: Austria, Estonia, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Slovenia, while the project is intended to expand on 19 EU member states until 2010. Project and member consortium is lead by German firm RISER of the same name. Within the project the Ministry of the Interior and Genis d.o.o. will enable Slovenian users search of individuals in other countries and vice versa.

Services arising based on RISER project will be meant especially for persons of public and private law who need individual's address and verification of age or existence of the individual in question. Reasons for the interest of users for this service are numerous – enforcement of individual's rights (social benefits, pensions payout, accuracy of data upon arising of contractual obligation) and execution of their obligations (paying taxes, finding debtors, prevention of intentional or unintentional abuse).

RISER functions only as a mediator between user from individual countries and official data resources in other countries, taking care of simple operation (data resources, forms, record structures, translations, prices) and destroys the personal data after the completion of the procedure.

More information on RISER project is available on web page: http://www.riser.eu.com/.