The Agency for Identification Documents, Registers and Data Exchange of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IDDEEA) was established by the Law on Agency in June 2008 ("Official Gazette of BiH", No.56/08).

IDDEEA is responsible for setting standards in the field of identification documents, administration and maintenance of servers which contain data from central registers, applications hosting through which competent authorities conduct administrative procedures related to the issuance of identity documents, maintaining data transmission network between institutions at all levels of government and personalization (printing) of personal documents.

In accordance with the law regulations personal documents are issued by the competent Ministries of Interior (MoIs), Ministry of Interior in Republic of Srpska, the Cantonal Ministries of Interior in FBiH and Public Register of Brcko District in Brcko.

The requests for issuance of documents are submitted in the organizational units of MoIs in the place of residence.