Highway code: no mandatory certified e-mail for vehicle applications
Minister Matteo Salvini denies the obligation of digital domicile for the issue or renewal of driving licenses and car paperwork
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The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini has ruled out the inclusion in the new Highway Code of the obligation to possess a digital domicile (PEC) to carry out procedures such as renewing a driving license or registering vehicles.
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Why It Matters
The proposal provided for the obligation of digital domicile registered in the INAD for vehicular procedures. The digital address (PEC) replaces the physical address for legal communications from the Public Administration.
The proposal to link requests for the issuance, renewal of a driving licence, registration or inspection of a vehicle to the communication of a digital address, with a mandatory PEC, will not be included in the new Highway Code.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, intervenes on an eventuality that had opened up an innovation with potentially great impact for citizens: the certified e-mail as a fulfillment for those who own a car or motorbike.
An idea that was not out of the blue but contained in the basic text of the new Highway Code, in particular in the provision of the obligation to have a digital domicile registered in the Inad, the National Index of digital domiciles, to carry out some of the main practices related to a vehicle: from registration to inspection, up to the transfer of ownership. And today, as the Ministry of the Interior writes, "the digital domicile is a certified email address (PEC) that replaces your physical address for sending communications with legal value by the Public Administration, such as deeds, notifications and notices".
The MIT now specifies that "it was one of the numerous proposals on which over 100 sector associations, technicians, professionals, unions and businesses are sending reflections and suggestions to the MIT in this month of August".
