Birth Certificate and Birth Registration

Parents have 15 days following the day of the birth – including Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays – to declare the birth of a child. This must be done at the civil registry in the municipality where the child was born. In some municipalities, you can also register your child at the maternity clinic.

To declare your child, you need the following documents:

• the record of the birth (which you obtain from the hospital or the midwife)
• your identity card
• possibly your marriage book or deed of accreditation  

You will receive a number of birth certificates during the declaration. You need them, for example, to apply for child allowance and to provide them to the health insurance fund.

All the information about what you need to arrange following the birth of a child can be found at Opens in new windowthe portal website of the Federal Government.