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Polish company will draw up the new identification

TEGUCIGALPA.

Starting in November, Hondurans they will have a new identity card. The commissioners of the National Register of persons (RNP) released the name of the company that will prepare the National Identification Document, after more than a year of waiting and 22 days before the official call for primary elections is made.

At the company Thales is of Polish origin, but is associated with the company Selp, the same one of French origin that in December of last year was announced as one of the finalists along with the also French Gemalto, process that was canceled.

The consortium made up of Thales and Selp, lead by Thales Group, will issue about 5.5 million of the new identification cards. Rolando Kattán, commissioner of the RNP, said Thales Group has extensive experience and global leadership in manufacturing identity cards with the highest range of technology and security.

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The RNP ensures that the new identification will meet the highest security standards. The bidding process was coordinated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

“It is one of the 500 largest companies in the world, it is the leading identification company in the world, they make the British passport, they make the identity cards of Sweden, Denmark, Finland”.

Meets more than three standards ISO: in information security, printing and durability. Kattán added that the cost of each card is $ 1.88 (about L47) for each one along with the envelope and its specifications. The total cost is around $ 10.3 million (about L255 million), plus some additional costs.

The Hondurans they will have the identification for free. The art of the new document has already been sent to the company to begin with the design, so it is expected that the elaboration of the document will begin as soon as possible. Cards will begin shipping in November, December, January, and February.

The authorities of the RNP indicated that there will be two printers in Tegucigalpa that will be part of the printing module of the RNP guaranteeing the continuity and the capacity for local printing of the new document. In the next few days, the commissioners of the RNP will travel to Poland, where the company is to carry out the supervisions.

Enrollment process will end on December 31

TEGUCIGALPA. The Identifícate project, which has updated the data of more than 600,000 Hondurans so that they have the new identity card, begins tomorrow in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa.

The enrollment units are in more than 90% of the territory and according to the schedule, the enrollment process will end on December 31.

Enrollers are in 17 departments, the RNP authorities indicated that in the department of Gracias a Dios it will be carried out in a third phase that intends to begin in early or mid-September.

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