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Romania has issued over 1.5 million electronic ID cards since March 2025, with biometric data and certificates on the chip, under an EU-funded recovery-plan project. CBDC work is research only.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Romania
- Program
- Cartea electronică de identitate (CEI); ROeID
- Status
- Available, partial uptake
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
The first CEI was issued on 20 March 2025 in Cluj. Romania Insider reported over 1.5 million cards issued in the first year. The chip holds two fingerprints and certificates for authentication and e-signature. The card was free under the recovery plan until June 2026, with a fee after that.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
The Atlantic Council tracker lists National Bank of Romania research. No pilot found as of Oct 2026.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-03-20Rolling it out
Romania issued its first electronic identity card with biometric data in Cluj County. Romania Insider ↗
UN and WHO
How Romania has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Abstained
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 78.1 · rank 37 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the -2 adds up
- -1Must offer an EU digital ID wallet by Dec 2026 source ↗
- -1Prices carbon nationally (tax or emissions trading) source ↗
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