Representatives of Ordo Iuris participated in the public consultation, stressing that the European Digital Identity Wallet would not be created at EU level, but by individual associate States or by external entities.
Gender differentiated?
Four draft implementing regulations were presented during the consultation. The first regulates the basic functions of portfolios, the second concerns the certification of applications by associate States, the 3rd includes notification of adopted portfolios and the 4th refers to user recognition data. Ordo Iuris points out the 4th project.
It was accompanied by an annex which raised doubts about the organisation. In 1 of the tables, among the mandatory attributes, there is simply a sex attribute. but Male and female We will find values: unknown, other, between (inter), differentiated (different) and open (open).
Countries that let specified diversity of sex are inactive a vast number of EU countries. Even where specified practice has been permitted, it is mostly only applied to people suffering from indifference disorders and is utilized in extreme, isolated and uncommon cases. – wrote the organization in an authoritative statement.
Compliance with national law
The organisation suggests that amendments should be made to the Regulation to let associate States to make specified a set of recognition data linked to the portfolio, which will be consistent with the information contained in the records of civilian position records. As we read further, regulations should indicate that the definition of sex as another than male or female is not acceptable if it is contrary to national law of the issuing State of the European Digital Identity Wallet.
It should be noted that the word "other", "between", "various" or "open" has not been defined anywhere and it is not known precisely what they are. In particular, they shall not be included in the ISO/IEC 5218 standard as set out in the Annex establishing an global standard for the coding of sex utilizing numerical expressions in electronic databases. This standard only provides for 4 values: ‘unknown’, ‘male’, ‘female’ and ‘not applicable’. Therefore, the Ordo Iuris Institute indicates that the remaining values, which are not foreseen by this standard, should be completely removed from the task said Jędrzej Jabłoński, analyst of the Ordo Iuris investigation and Analysis Center.
