The government approves the digital ID, a document that will be used to identify with an ‘app’ on the mobile | Spain
The government approved the new DNI digital. The voluntary document is downloaded through an application and can be used on each person’s mobile phone to prove the identity and personal data before agents or public officials, and to do any face -to -face procedure, whether legal or administrative, before any public administration or private entity. However, it will not serve to travel or identify abroad. El Ministerio del Interior ha previsto que su implantación se haga en varias fases. His first phase begins tomorrow with the publication in the Official Gazette of the State of Royal Decree that regulates it. At the moment it will not serve for internet procedures, nor to perform telematic efforts in which it is necessary to authenticate the identity or have an electronic signature, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has detailed at the press conference after the Council of Ministers. Interior expects that in 2026 it has « full functionality » and can also be used on the Internet.
The initiative is part of a royal decree that regulates the process of issuing, management and development of the ID and that for the first time does not remain only in the physical format, but contemplates a digital version, highlighted the spokesman, Pilar Alegría. The National Police has explained in recent weeks through its social networks that the DNI on the mobile will serve for any public or private registration process, such as the opening of a bank account, the rental of a vehicle or the registration of a hotel. The application
Marlaska has expanded the examples of use of the digital ID detailing that it will allow such daily and relevant actions as accessing any public or private space, the exercise of the right to vote, signing a contract of sale in a house, the deeds before the notary or signing a mortgage loan. The Interior Ministry has set a period of 12 months for public and private entities to adopt the necessary measures to adapt to the new system and once this time has elapsed, they will be obliged to accept the new digital format as a form of identification, the minister has detailed. « In 2026, that is, in a year, we will enable digital ID as an identity accreditation document in telematic efforts, electronic signature operations and in other actions through the Internet, that is, full functionality to all those effects, » he advanced.
La aplicación en la que se podrá llevar el DNI digital se llama MiDNI, según ha informado el Ministerio del Interior. « He is the only officer with legal support to prove the identity equivalent to the physical ID, for which he generates a QR signed and sealed by the National Police that guarantees the authenticity of the data shown in real time and certifies that they are updated and are valid at the time of verification, » the department explained through a statement.
The general director of the National PoliceFrancisco Pardo, already explained at the end of last year in an appearance in the Senate, that the Royal Decree project that would regulate it was quite advanced. Then he explained that the digital ID would be installed through a computer program or app which includes an « electronic identification infrastructure » validated by the National Police, police force responsible for the issuance of personal identity documents in Spain. Pardo insisted that this type of document is voluntary and in the determination that its installation was simple.
The digital version will have the same validity as the physical format of the card and can be used to prove identity and personal data such as age, domicile, or any other of those that appear in this document, with “the same legal effectiveness” for identification purposes as the DNI in card format used now.
This ID can be requested in addition to the application of the police; in the DNI renewal process, when someone goes to a documentation office; and in the update stalls (PAD), machines with touch screen and a keyboard that allow renewing the keys of the ID to use electronically. The government is confident that many people from rural areas can download the app of the DNI on the mobile in places close to its municipalities.
The public documentation service is immersed in a transformation process, so they have launched a digital identity plan in which a set of actions that will mark the evolution of the National Identity Document in the coming years are included. Within that plan, the purchase of 301 documentation update points (PAD) to place them in populations in which there are no national police units and that will allow renewing the electronic certificates of the DNI is framed. These points are being installed in spaces such as municipalities and will allow the Certificates of the DNI, to the change of the associated password and the renewal of the certificates, although the objective is that they incorporate more functions in the future.
