The EU EOM recommends that the National Parliament amend existing legislation so as to extend the authority of STAE, which already maintains the most comprehensive inventory of the voting age population, to allow it to assume the additional responsibility of maintaining a permanent civil register. This measure would not only simplify the current practice of maintaining two parallel databases and two different types of identification document, but would also, after an initial quite costly registration drive, provide a more reliable and costeffective system for maintaining a register of Timorese citizens. To facilitate the cleaning of the register, suco and aldeia chiefs could be instructed to inform STAE district offices periodically about newborn and deceased persons as well as those who have changed their residence. Voter lists extracted from such a unified civil register would undoubtedly be more up-to-date, accurate and complete than the present electoral register.