Validating personal data in the National Registry of Natural Persons (RNPP)
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The purpose of the National Registry of Natural Persons (Registre national des personnes physiques - RNPP) is to ensure the accuracy of recorded data, based on supporting documentation, and provide the administration with access to accurate and up-to-date information. This data is used for the production of passports, ID cards, driving licenses and other official documents.
It has also facilitated substantial progress in terms of administrative simplification. Now, public services and government administration offices with access to the registry, should, in principle, no longer demand the production of certificates to attest the accuracy of personal data known to be accurate.
The RNPP recognises two types of data:
- informative data: data taken from the National Directory of Natural Persons (Répertoire national des personnes - RPNI) in the RNPP as of 1 July 2013, not updated since that time;
- exact data: the surname, given name(s) and date of birth, as well as all data updated by the administration since 1 July 2013.
For the data to be considered exact and to fully benefit from administrative simplification, the individual in question may validate their information held in the RNPP.
Data may only be validated by persons who were in contact with administrative offices prior to 1 July 2013, and who were therefore registered in the RPNI.
Who is concerned
Data may be validated by the individual in question, their guardians, trustees, legal administrators, ad hoc administrators or special representatives.
If the concerned individual is a non-emancipated minor, the data must be validated by a parent with parental authority or by a legal guardian.
The purpose of this procedure for the citizen is to validate certain data items held in the RNPP. In fact, the data entered by various administrations prior to 1 July 2013 are considered informative. Thus, for these data to be considered exact, they may be validated.
How to proceed
Objectives of the RNPP
The objectives of the RNPP are as follows:
- group all data relating to the identification of natural persons (residents or non-residents) who are in contact with a Luxembourg government administration department;
- serve as the basis for the production of official documents, such as travel documents, identity documents, residence permits, driving licenses and other administrative documents;
- to guarantee the uniqueness and unambiguousness of the national identification number (matricule - 13-digit number) assigned to a natural person;
- retain a record of any updates to the personal data of a natural person.
Contents of the RNPP
The RNPP contains the following personal information:
- surname and first name(s);
- the national identification number (13-digit number) of the holder;
- usual place of residence;
- date and place of birth;
- family status;
- nationality or nationalities, or statelessness;
- refugee or subsidiary protection status;
- gender;
- for those who are married, separated, widowed or in partnerships, the national identification numbers, surnames, given names and dates of birth of living or predeceased spouses;
- national identification numbers of parents where parentage has been established, provided that such numbers have been assigned;
- national identification numbers of children where parentage has been established, provided that such numbers have been assigned;
- origin of the data recorded and any modifications made;
- date and place of death;
- nobility titles for members of the Grand-Ducal family.
There is no legal requirement for the RNPP to list preferentially-used first names or aliases that differ from officially recognised first names.
Validation of personal data
Each person listed in the RNPP has the right to view their personal data.
When they have viewed their personal data, a person who was registered in the RPNI as of 1 July 2013 (and who was therefore in contact with Luxembourg administration offices) may validate their information for accuracy:
- for residents and non-residents: via MyGuichet.lu;
- for residents only: by going to the communal office of their place of residence or to the Service du registre national des personnes physiques and signing an affidavit showing the data held by the RNPP.
The purpose of this procedure, for the citizen, is to validate certain data contained in the RNPP, whose accuracy the administration has not been able to verify.
Non-residents may also validate the information considered to be fixed, including:
- surname and first name(s);
- date and place of birth;
- nationality (for Luxembourg citizens);
- gender, etc.
Data may be validated only once.
Correcting or updating personal data
If, at the time of viewing or validating their personal data, a citizen learns that certain items are not correct, they may perform a correction or update depending on whether they are a resident or a non-resident.
Online services and forms
Online services
Who to contact
Communal administrations
- Address:
- Luxembourg
Government IT Centre (CTIE) National Registry of Natural Persons (RNPP)
- Address:
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560, rue de Neudorf
L-2220
Luxembourg
B.P. 1583, L-1015 Luxembourg
- Email address:
- registre.national@ctie.etat.lu
Related procedures and links
Procedures
Links
Legal references
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Loi modifiée du 19 juin 2013
relative à l'identification des personnes physiques, au registre national des personnes physiques, à la carte d'identité, aux registres communaux des personnes physiques
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Loi du 25 juin 2014
portant modification de la loi du 19 juin 2013 relative à l'identification des personnes physiques
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Loi du 29 mars 2016
modifiant 1. la loi modifiée du 19 juin 2013 relative à l'identification des personnes physiques; 2. la loi électorale modifiée du 18 février 2003
