From the first of January, the administration of data changes and the rewriting of public utilities will be faster and simpler with the introduction of the data change management service: residential customers can initiate electronic notification of changes to their document data to the public utilities and companies contracted with them, replacing personal administration.

At the briefing in Budapest on Tuesday announcing the start of the service, Ágostházy Szabolcs, the Prime Minister's Secretary of State for European Union Development, called the project a milestone, with which the state not only helps people with their own administrative procedures, but also intends to provide meaningful support for private service providers.

He said that, thanks to the service, from January it will be enough to notify the government office of data changes once, and based on the authorization of the citizens, the contracted service provider will do the work instead of the people.

In the first phase, private individuals will be supported with the service by involving actors from the public utility and telecommunications sectors, said the state secretary, who noted that Hungarian people deal with about four million cases related to data changes every year.

He announced that in the next step they would like to provide this convenience service to businesses and individual entrepreneurs as well. The range of service providers will also be broadened to include players from the banking and insurance markets.

Ágostházy Szabolcs said that if the entire project is realized, people will save 17.5 million hours of administration every year. On the service providers' side, this will mean saving about 12 million working hours per year, and this will significantly reduce their costs.

According to their estimates, starting the project will mean annual savings of about 140 billion forints, which was realized from about one and a half billion forints of non-reimbursable support from the European Union, so this represents a hundredfold return within one year.

Source: MTI