Central Register on Missing Persons

The Law provides that a Central Register on Missing Persons shall be established by the Governmental Commission on Missing Persons with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of its mandate and clarifying the fate of missing persons. The Commission shall collect in the Register data on missing persons collected from all available sources, useful to reveal their identity and location or the circumstances of their disappearance. Such data shall be exchanged with the relevant State institutions, as appropriate, for the purpose of searching and identifying the missing persons or recovering their mortal remains. Families and legal representatives of missing persons, as well as other organisations which have the mandate to search and identify missing persons, shall have access to information available in the Register, according to the relevant legislation on personal data protection. A request for access to the data contained in the Register can be addressed to the Commission by family members of a missing person or by State institutions that are not represented in the Commission.