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What you need to know about temporary Danish digital post shutdown

Residents in Denmark will be unable to receive official correspondence through secure digital mail systems including e-boks for four days in late November.

Published: 25 October 2021 15:30 CEST
E-boks and Denmark's other secure digital post platforms will be out of action for state correspondence for four days in late November.
E-boks and Denmark's other secure digital post platforms will be out of action for state correspondence for four days in late November. Photo: Niels Christian Vilmann/Ritzau Scanpix

The Agency for Digitisation (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) will inform its 4.5 million private and 800,000 business users this week that the service will be unavailable from November 26th-29th.

That means that digital official correspondences from the state, municipalities, and regional authorities will not sent to the e-boks inbox, or be accessible via the borger.dk or Virk websites. Users will also not be able to reply to messages using the system.

All residents in Denmark over the age of 15 receive digital post unless they are exempted. It is accessed on the various platforms by logging in using the NemID (soon to be superseded by MitID) digital ID.

READ ALSO: What do foreign residents in Denmark need to know about switch from NemID to MitID?

The system will be taken offline during an Agency for Digitisation transition to a new Digital Post system, to be launched at the end of November, the agency said in a press release on its website.

It will still be possible to log in to your secure digital post account and read older mails, as well as correspondence from your bank and other private companies which use the service.

Although the temporary shutdown will be undertaken to facilitate a migration to a new system, private users and companies do not need to take any action to move their older mails to the new system.

When you log in to Digital Post from November 30th – when the new system is up and running – you will again be able to receive and respond to messages from the state, regions and municipalities.

You will still have a single inbox which can be accessed by logging on at a number of places: e-boks.dk, borger.dk and Virk. These will be supplemented by a new Digital Post app and mit.dk.

Borger.dk, Virk and the newly-developed Digital Post app are state-provided and funded platforms. Only state, municipal, and regional correspondence can be accessed here.

E-boks.dk and mit.dk are privately-owned platforms, which means they can also receive secure digital post from banks and other private businesses.

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BUSINESS

The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

Deserted town centres and struggling businesses are common traits in 14 Danish towns which will now be exempted from a number of regulations to give them a better chance of revival.

Published: 6 October 2023 17:03 CEST
The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

The 14 towns will be “set free” from certain rules and regulations in a trial scheme aimed at reviving them after years of decline.

The launch of the scheme was announced by the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs on Friday, and means that, for example, towns will be permitted to give extra subsidies to business owners who want to rent currently-empty town centre units.

They will also be allowed to cut down protected forest if it has taken the form of scrub and stops the town from feeling congruous; and to rent out empty commercial premises as housing in town centres.

The towns included in the trial are: Assens, Faaborg, Grindsted, Hornslet, Ikast, Nordborg, Nykøbing Sjælland, Odder, Otterup, Rødekro, Rønne, Sakskøbing, Støvring and Vamdrup, after their applications to the trial scheme were accepted.

A political agreement from 2021 paved the way for the new deregulation scheme the towns will hope to benefit from. The scheme is reported to cost the government 130 million kroner.

“I’m very much looking forward to seeing the result. I hope that this will be a part of what puts more life into the centre of medium-sized Danish towns,” the minister for rural districts Louise Schack Elholm said in a statement.

“This is a number of different initiatives, nine in total, that we are making as legal exemptions,” Elholm said.

Some 32 towns initially applied for the scheme.

“It’s incredibly good to see how many municipalities are interested in getting more life into their town centres. The plan was for 10 towns to be selected but there were so many good projects that we agreed on 14 towns,” she said.

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