CNIN

CNIN — Compania Națională Imprimeria Română (the National Printing House) — is a Romanian state-owned security printing company organised as a joint-stock commercial company with wholly state capital. Its shareholder interest is represented by the Ministry of Public Finance, and it operates under that ministry's authority. It is described as the national leader in the field of security printing, combining traditional typographic capacity with the ability to produce electronic documents. The company holds an exclusive production mandate for a wide range of value and security documents: stamps, banderoles and labels used to mark excise-liable products, special-regime forms, treasury certificates, treasury bills, fiscal stamps, electronic forms, electronic passports, temporary residence permits for foreign citizens, small-border-traffic permits, the uniform visa sticker, travel documents, and national health insurance cards. Alongside these security products, its catalogue includes commercial print work, cards and other products, and it offers security printing, commercial printing, and research, studies and forecasting services, supported by a security graphics capability and an expertise and research laboratory. CNIN gained particular prominence in 2008 when it put the electronic passport into circulation on 31 December 2008, only six months after receiving the task by law, thereby helping Romania avoid financial sanctions and the cancellation of Schengen Facility financing worth 569 million euros. At that time the European Commission had already launched an infringement action against Romania. Romania and Bulgaria were the only EU countries that had not yet introduced the electronic passport in 2008. The Romanian electronic passport is sold at 47 euros (excluding VAT and the consular fee to the state budget) at a volume of 400,000 units per year, and features a polycarbonate data page, an embedded chip in the data page, a perforated image in the data page, an ink-jet shadow photograph on the first visa page, and paper with an incorporated tricolour metallic thread. The company also played a major role in Romania's fulfilment of the technical conditions for Schengen accession: Romania was the first EU country to launch the uniform Schengen visa sticker in December 2008, ahead of the regulated June 2009 deadline. It also launched the small-border-traffic permit with the Republic of Moldova in record time, in line with European standards. On 13 December 2010 CNIN was named the most transparent public-sector unit in Romania, topping the Public Sector Transparency Ranking compiled by the Alliance for a Clean Romania. CNIN is headquartered in Bucharest and serves the Romanian market, with a strong public-sector and government-authority orientation reflected in its online services for government authorities, passport online payment, and emergency-situation platform links. Its leadership has included general directors Dumitru Mocanu (1992–1996), Ion Barbu (1996–2001), Dan Docan (2001–2009) and Sorin Toader (from 2009). Reported employee numbers were 460 in 2008 and 473 in 2011, with turnover of 138,287 thousand lei in 2006, 159,757 thousand lei in 2007, 187,443 thousand lei in 2008 and 193,390 thousand lei in 2009.

CNIN — Compania Națională Imprimeria Română (the National Printing House) — is a Romanian state-owned security printing company organised as a joint-stock commercial company with wholly state capital. Its shareholder interest is represented by the Ministry of Public Finance, and it operates under that ministry's authority. It is described as the national leader in the field of security printing, combining traditional typographic capacity with the ability to produce electronic documents. The company holds an exclusive production mandate for a wide range of value and security documents: stamps, banderoles and labels used to mark excise-liable products, special-regime forms, treasury certificates, treasury bills, fiscal stamps, electronic forms, electronic passports, temporary residence permits for foreign citizens, small-border-traffic permits, the uniform visa sticker, travel documents, and national health insurance cards. Alongside these security products, its catalogue includes commercial print work, cards and other products, and it offers security printing, commercial printing, and research, studies and forecasting services, supported by a security graphics capability and an expertise and research laboratory. CNIN gained particular prominence in 2008 when it put the electronic passport into circulation on 31 December 2008, only six months after receiving the task by law, thereby helping Romania avoid financial sanctions and the cancellation of Schengen Facility financing worth 569 million euros. At that time the European Commission had already launched an infringement action against Romania. Romania and Bulgaria were the only EU countries that had not yet introduced the electronic passport in 2008. The Romanian electronic passport is sold at 47 euros (excluding VAT and the consular fee to the state budget) at a volume of 400,000 units per year, and features a polycarbonate data page, an embedded chip in the data page, a perforated image in the data page, an ink-jet shadow photograph on the first visa page, and paper with an incorporated tricolour metallic thread. The company also played a major role in Romania's fulfilment of the technical conditions for Schengen accession: Romania was the first EU country to launch the uniform Schengen visa sticker in December 2008, ahead of the regulated June 2009 deadline. It also launched the small-border-traffic permit with the Republic of Moldova in record time, in line with European standards. On 13 December 2010 CNIN was named the most transparent public-sector unit in Romania, topping the Public Sector Transparency Ranking compiled by the Alliance for a Clean Romania. CNIN is headquartered in Bucharest and serves the Romanian market, with a strong public-sector and government-authority orientation reflected in its online services for government authorities, passport online payment, and emergency-situation platform links. Its leadership has included general directors Dumitru Mocanu (1992–1996), Ion Barbu (1996–2001), Dan Docan (2001–2009) and Sorin Toader (from 2009). Reported employee numbers were 460 in 2008 and 473 in 2011, with turnover of 138,287 thousand lei in 2006, 159,757 thousand lei in 2007, 187,443 thousand lei in 2008 and 193,390 thousand lei in 2009.

• Dumitru Mocanu serves as General Director (1992–1996).

• Ion Barbu serves as General Director (1996–2001).

• Dan Docan serves as General Director (2001–2009).

• Electronic passport put into circulation, six months after receiving the task by law.

• Romania becomes the first EU country to launch the uniform Schengen visa sticker, ahead of the June 2009 deadline.

• Sorin Toader becomes General Director (from 2009).

• Named the most transparent public-sector unit in Romania, topping the Public Sector Transparency Ranking.

• Launch of PrintIN, a printing house for small and medium print runs.

National leader in security printing and exclusive producer of value documents for the Romanian state.

• Electronic passport

  Sold at 47 euros (excluding VAT and consular fee) at 400,000 units per year; features a polycarbonate data page, embedded chip, perforated image, ink-jet shadow photograph and paper with tricolour metallic thread.

• Uniform Schengen visa sticker

  Launched in December 2008, ahead of the regulated June 2009 deadline.

• Small-border-traffic permit with the Republic of Moldova

  Launched in record time, in line with European standards.

• National health insurance card

  Produced exclusively by CNIN.

• Stamps, banderoles and excise labels

  Exclusive production of value papers used to mark excise-liable products.

• Treasury certificates and treasury bills

  Exclusive production.

• Fiscal stamps

  Exclusive production.

• Special-regime forms

  Exclusive production.

• Electronic forms

  Exclusive production.

• Temporary residence permits for foreign citizens

  Exclusive production.

• Travel documents

  Exclusive production.

• Commercial print work

  Commercial printing services.

• Cards

  Card products.

1. 1Imprimeria Nationalacnin.ro
2. 2CNINwikidata.org
3. 3Imprimeria Naționalăro.wikipedia.org