Personal Number: Unifying Four State Registers into One

In a speech at the Parliament on Friday (09.05.2025), the Minister for Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, announced that the government is addressing an issue of pure informatics to consolidate and clarify the four state registers. The personal number resolves a 60-year-old problem, stopping the State from burdening its citizens. According to Papastergiou, the four different state registers (Identity, Tax ID, Social Security Number, Electoral Register) are now being combined into one. He emphasized that if Greece were building a digital infrastructure from scratch today, there would be only one unified number rather than four separate ones. The necessity to merge these registers has been long overdue, aiming to ease the burden on Greek citizens. The choice of the personal number has passed twice through the Data Protection Authority with observations followed by the Government. Papastergiou clarified that the personal number does not aim to permanently eliminate sectoral numbers but will serve as the sole number for communication with the Greek public sector. The four sectoral numbers will remain in sub-registers of organizations and agencies, yet citizens will need to remember only one number.