Papastergiou on electric scooters: How the ban on minors will be implemented, with kids wallet the procedure

Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou referred to the implementation of a ban connected the usage of electric scooters by minors.

Speaking to Action24, helium emphasized that fake integer copies of ID cards — which, according to complaints, are being utilized by minors — are nary longer recognized arsenic valid recognition documents. He added that the Kids Wallet app is utilized for property verification done a process that, for the clip being, cannot beryllium bypassed.

Responding to a question astir whether the aforesaid exertion could beryllium utilized to forestall minors from utilizing electrical scooters, helium said that this is so the goal.

“This is precisely what we discussed with the Ministry of Citizen Protection and the Ministry of Transport,” Papastergiou initially noted, adding:

“This age-verification mechanics volition besides beryllium utilized connected societal media. It is already being utilized for the merchantability of intoxicant and baccy products, and it volition besides beryllium applied to scooters.”

The Digital Governance Minister further explained that electrical scooter users “will beryllium required to implicit an property verification scan and, if the criterion is not met, the scooters volition not unlock.”