The UEC allowed remote order, pay and receive government services,[1] replaces a number of documents, including medical insurance policies and pension insurance certificate, bringing together different services on a single card including electronic purse, debit card, electronic signature, the ticket and other possibilities.

210-FZ of July 27, 2010 "On the organization of public and municipal services", which defines the universal electronic card, the objectives of its creation and application areas.

In February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the "Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of Russia", dedicated to the implementation of one of the most important projects of the commission – the introduction of universal electronic card as a means of public and municipal services to the population.

Use the map to the microprocessor foreign production Federal Security Service, Russia's internal secret police considers dangerous.

In October 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a presidential decree on the application of the national emblem on the universal electronic card.

And in the Savings Bank promised to "neutralize lobbyists international payment systems in the bodies of the Russian government".

On 16 February 2012, there was published "How to use UEC", which set out the anecdotal evidence of the pin-code, which is possible only unfulfilled plans of developers: "If citizens are forced to enter a PIN code, then provided false PINs, the introduction of which will buy time and to provide prompt assistance to a citizen from the power structures".

Other details about the citizens are still stored in the databases of public institutions, and the UEC only helps to search for matching records about the holder when handling them to the appropriate agency using the secure channel communications system of inter-agency electronic interaction.

This information is automatically registered with the government services that provide e-services and take advantage of a lost card will be impossible.

Blanks for UEC are made at two plants to join the single payment-service system "Universal Electronic Card": a state of "Goznak" and ZAO "First Printing House".

Selected for the UEC cryptographic algorithms and plans to study their safety were found to correspond to the highest standards of information security at the Fifteenth International Conference "RusKripto'2013" on 30 March 2013.