The Senate decides whether to change the Civil Registry so that birth certificates do not last 6 months and are permanent

MADRID, 16 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Senate will have to decide this week whether to begin processing a Junts initiative to modify the Civil Registry so that birth and death certificates are permanent and are not older than six months from the time they are issued.

The initiative will be addressed this Wednesday in the plenary session of the Upper House, just after the debate between the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, next Tuesday in the Senate. In the event that the majority of the Chamber gives its support to this text, it would begin to be processed in the Cortes as a bill.

Specifically, Junts intends to add a new article 82 bis to the Civil Registry Law so that the certifications, in extract or literal, of birth or death are presumed to be permanently valid, "without prejudice to the responsibilities that could occur due to discrepancies between the content of the same and the registration, provided that said discrepancies could not be attributed to the Civil Registry itself.

And it is that, according to the independent formation in its text, to which Europa Press has had access, at present, the maximum age of the certificates is usually between three and six months from the moment it is issued.

"This temporary fork does not assure the receiving Administration of the certifications that they have truthful content, so it does not exempt the citizen from this responsibility," Junts warns.