After almost twenty years, on July 1, IDEEAA established an application for issuing a qualified electronic signature for remote signing.
A big step in the process of digital transformation, but an even bigger help for citizens and companies to send their requests to competent institutions or have access to personal documents as soon as possible, with minimal documentation.
ALMIR BADNJEVIĆ, director of IDDEEA
“For us at IDDEA, the most important thing is that the electronic signature and all other services are available to every citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in as many places as possible. We have started this process of opening offices throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
The IDDEEA reminds that they and the ITA are the only ones with international certification for issuing a qualified electronic signature in accordance with the law. They claim that PU FBiH, with its own technical approach, decided to develop a system that gives preference to the private company Halcom dd Ljubljana and BH Pošta. In this way, they point out, citizens and the economy bear additional costs.
“IDDEEA BiH offers citizens a completely free solution for a qualified electronic signature at more than 30 locations throughout BiH. PUFBIH has consciously ignored this fact, favoring solutions that expose citizens and the economy to significant financial costs.”
So we are witnessing fights through announcements between the IDDEEA, IIOBiH and the Tax Administration of the Federation of BiH. As announced by the Tax Administration, the obligation to submit tax returns electronically with the use of a qualified electronic certificate begins at the beginning of January.
“Only two certifiers, BH Post and Halcom Ljubljana, fulfilled all the technical requirements for system integration and thus ensured the use of qualified electronic certificates for the purpose of authentication and authorization of the holder of the same in e-services of the Tax Administration. The remaining two certifiers did not provide the necessary services for integration within the stipulated time.”
In the Directorate for Indirect Taxation, they also claim that the PU of the Federation has never adjusted its information system. They ask how the other two certifiers, Halcom and BH Post, can use the identity number of natural persons on their electronic certificates to issue digital qualified certificates in BiH?
“The Administration for Indirect Taxation considers it unacceptable that the business community in BiH, as well as all natural persons, who have already obtained a digital qualified certificate of the Administration, due to the unwillingness of the Tax Administration of the Federation, are additionally exposed to the costs of acquiring new digital qualified certificates from other certifiers,” said the ITA of BiH.
The Tax Administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that it is not true that they consciously decided to develop a system for individual certifiers and that they do not discriminate in the selection of authorized certifiers. On Monday, there will be a meeting of representatives of the Tax Administration of FBiH and IIOBiH with the aim of finding a solution. that they consciously decided to develop a system for individual certifiers and that they do not discriminate in the selection of authorized certifiers. On Monday, there will be a meeting of representatives of the Tax Administration of FBiH and IIOBiH with the aim of finding a solution, he writes BHRT.
