Editing Unique Master Citizen Number (section)

==History==

The JMBG was introduced in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] on January 8, 1977<ref>Law on the introduction of the Unique Master Citizen Number (»Official Gazette of SFRY«, No. 58/76., reg. 840., pp 1823. & 1824.) was published on 1976-12-31. The Law reached validity on 1977-01-08. The Article 12 of the Law gave a five years deadline for the introduction of the Unique Master Citizen Number.</ref> and applied to all citizens born before then and alive at the time. All six republics passed a law on the Unique Master Citizen Number.

Although the [[Republic of Croatia]] continued to use the JMBG after gaining independence<ref>Croatian Law on JMBG from 1992 – ''Zakon o matičnom broju'' – [[Narodne novine]] 1992-9 {{cite web|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1992_02_9_145.html |title=9 21.02.1992 Ukaz o progla?enju Zakona o mati?nom broju |access-date=October 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610194819/http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1992_02_9_145.html |archive-date=June 10, 2015 |language=hr}}</ref> in 2002 the official name of the number there was changed to ''Matični broj građana'' (''Master Citizen Number''), acronym ''MBG''.<ref> Changes in the Croatian Law on MBG from 2002 – ''Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o matičnom broju'' – [[Narodne novine]] 2002-66 {{cite web|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2002_06_66_1126.html |title=66 7.6.2002 Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o mati?nom broju |access-date=March 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105154039/http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2002_06_66_1126.html |archive-date=November 5, 2015 |language=hr}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mup.hr/main.aspx?id=95 Full text of the Croatian master citizen number law at the Croatian Ministry of Interior Affairs] {{in lang|hr}}</ref> Advocates of the [[right to privacy]] argued that JMBG was a piece of [[personally identifiable information]] that needed to be protected by [[information privacy law]], mostly because it was unique and it included the person's date of birth. When the law to that effect was passed in 2003<ref>{{langx|hr|Zakon o zaštiti osobnih podataka}}, [[Narodne novine]] 2003-103 {{cite web|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/305952.html |title=103 26.6.2003 Zakon o za?titi osobnih podataka |access-date=October 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922122141/http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/305952.html |archive-date=September 22, 2009 |language=hr}}</ref> it was no longer possible to use JMBG on [[identity card]]s, [[driver's license]]s and similar documents. Even though law hid ''MBG'' from personal documents, various institutions (e.g. banks, schools, insurance companies ...) continued to demand citizens to  give their ''MBG'' while signing various contracts, since ''MBG'' was natural unique identifier of each citizen. Seeing flaw of hiding ''MBG'', on January 1, 2009 Croatia passed a new law<ref>{{langx|hr|Zakon o osobnom identifikacijskom broju}}, [[Narodne novine]] 2008-60 {{cite web|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_05_60_2033.html |title=60 28.5.2008 Zakon o osobnom identifikacijskom broju |access-date=May 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022102120/http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_05_60_2033.html |archive-date=October 22, 2009 |language=hr}}</ref> that introduced a different unique identifier called the [[Personal identification number (Croatia)|Personal Identification Number]] ({{langx|hr|Osobni identifikacijski broj}}, ''OIB''). The OIB consists of 11 randomly chosen digits and has been assigned to all Croatian citizens, companies registered in Croatia and foreign nationals residing in Croatia.<ref>[http://www.oib.hr OIB – Croatia]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805064708/http://www.oib.hr/ |date=August 5, 2012 }}</ref> Although the OIB is in use, the MBG law remains in effect, and the MBG number is still issued. It is used for data coordination among government registries. MBG no longer appears on [[Croatian identity card]]s since 2003, instead OIB does, since 2013.

In [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] in 2001 the official name of the number was changed to ''Jedinstveni matični broj'' (''Unique Master Number''), although acronym ''JMBG'' is still in use.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parlament.ba/law/DownloadDocument?lawDocumentId=2c35d62c-7a60-407a-9dc5-9dd364e05978&langTag=hr|title = ZAKON O JEDINSTVENOM MATIČNOM BROJU (Neslužbeni pročišćeni tekst1 ) Poglavlje I - OPĆE ODREDBE Članak 1. Ovim zakonom pro}}</ref>