Ordinance on the Registers Act (Registers Ordinance) (Registerverordnung) - Structure and Maintenance of the Cantonal Resident Platform

1. The municipalities shall transmit the necessary data to the central statistical office of the canton free of charge, in accordance with its instructions, for the establishment and maintenance of the cantonal resident platform pursuant to § 9 of the Register Act of May 25, 2009.

1. The following entities shall transmit the required data free of charge to the central statistical office of the canton according to its instructions, in accordance with § 10 paragraph 3 of the Register Act for the maintenance of the cantonal building and housing register

a. the building permit authorities of the municipalities,

b. the Department of Space and Economy,

c. the Luzern Building Insurance.

1. The entities authorized pursuant to Annex 3 shall transmit the required data in accordance with Section 11, paragraph 2 of the Registration Act to the central statistical office of the canton free of charge and in accordance with their instructions, for the purpose of updating the cantonal business and enterprise register.

1. The central statistical office of the canton, in collaboration with the municipalities and the entities responsible for the cantonal registers, and after consulting the interested parties, as well as in coordination with the Federal Statistical Office, prepares a four-year performance plan for each legislative period in a multi-year program. This plan is to be approved by the government council.

2. The multi-year program determines the medium-term development priorities and performance goals to ensure the timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of the registers, as well as to establish the technical requirements for the creation and operation of the cantonal registers, and records the planned financial contributions of the canton.

1. The authorized entities as well as the content and modalities of the access rights to the data of the cantonal registers are specified in Appendices 1-3.

2. The following access rights are distinguished

a. Characteristics: Authorization for access to a defined selection of characteristics (characteristics group),

b. Identifiers: Authorization for access to a defined selection of identifiers,

c. Events: Authorization for access to a defined selection of events (event group); the authorization is limited to those characteristics assigned with the characteristics group according to paragraph 2a,

d. Area: spatial scope of the access authorization,

e. History: Authorization for access to historical records to trace developments,

f. Export: Authorization for electronic data export,

g. Subscription: Authorization for automatic receipt of data and event notifications by subscription.

3. Each entity is granted a specific combination of access rights for each individual register in accordance with paragraph 2.

4. The use of interfaces for automatic data exchange (e.g., WebServices) requires the access rights "Export" and "Subscription."

5. Access rights are granted individually to those persons within the entity tasked with fulfilling the corresponding statutory duty.

6. The authorized entities are responsible for ensuring compliance with data protection regulations concerning the data obtained from a cantonal register, particularly § 5a of the Cantonal Data Protection Act of July 2, 1990, the information technology legislation, and this regulation regarding access rights.

1. The central statistical office of the canton charges a fee for access to the cantonal registers. In this case, § 4 of the Ordinance on Fees for Statistical Services of the Central Statistical Office dated December 11, 2007, applies.

2. Entities that are obligated to provide data according to §§ 1-3 and are simultaneously listed as having access rights in Appendices 1-3 are exempt from the fee for those registers to which they must supply data.

1. The municipalities shall transmit to the Swiss Post, free of charge, the data required for the initial allocation of the EWID from the population registers, in accordance with the instructions of the central statistical office.

1. The costs invoiced by Swiss Post for the initial allocation of the EWID are borne by the canton at half, in accordance with § 22 of the Registration Act.

2. The canton assumes the basic flat rate for all municipalities from the costs invoiced by Swiss Post, as well as variable costs in the form of a fixed amount per person in multi-family houses.

3. The municipalities bear the variable costs incurred for their municipality that are not covered by the cantonal contribution.

4. The canton's central statistical office invoices the municipalities for the costs they must bear.

1. The canton shall bear the costs of the central statistics office for the purposes of register harmonization and the management of cantonal registers, insofar as these are not covered by fees.

2. The service agreement shall take into account, particularly for compensation, the costs of ongoing operations, as well as the costs for the optimization of the residents' registers and the cantonal registers, and the necessary coordination and consultation with federal, cantonal, municipal, and third-party administrative bodies.

1. The Regulation shall enter into force on January 1, 2010. It is to be published.