Compulsory dactyloscopic registration

Dactyloscopy of persons - activity, carried out by the competent authorities for the collection, recording, storage, classification, systematization, and provision of dactyloscopic data, establishing and confirming the identity of individuals.

Compulsory dactyloscopic registration applies to the following categories of individuals:

1) Citizens of the Republic of Moldova serving in:

a) Ministry of Internal Affairs;

b) Ministry of Defense;

c) Information and Security Service;

d) State Protection and Guard Service;

e) National Administration of Penitentiaries;

f) Prosecutor's Office;

g) National Anti-Corruption Centre;

h) Customs Service;

i) State Tax Service;

2) Crew members of state and private aircraft of the Republic of Moldova;

3) drivers, except those who have renounced their state identification number;

4) Citizens of the Republic of Moldova and foreigners who, due to health reasons or age, cannot provide their identity data, if such data cannot be obtained in another way;

5) Citizens of the Republic of Moldova and foreigners who are under criminal investigation, charged, or convicted of offenses or subject to contraventional arrest;

6) Foreigners who have arrived in the Republic of Moldova in search of asylum, who have applied to be granted political asylum or another kind of asylum or refugee status. 

Compulsory dactyloscopic registration also applies to all unidentified bodies.