for Business Registration in Germany

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North Rhine-Westphalia Germany

Use of Information Technology

for Business Registration in Germany

Rome, 13.10.2014

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Ministry of Justice North Rhine-Westphalia Germany

Overview

 16 German states

 130 Register courts

 4.6 Mio registered entities

 1 common portal

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Facts and figures

Registered entities: 4.612.847

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Electronic business register

 Starting 1999, the business registers have been transferred into electronic data bases, with relating meta data.

 The register is no longer a book, but a data base.

 Paper folders have been digitalised – they do not have to be kept any more.

 1 technical system (AURegis) in Germany

 Fully electronic procedure between notary and register

 All data available via

one single platform/portal

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Electronic Procedures

Electronic certified copies of application and other

documents

Essential content of the

application as structured data (XML)

XML

Packaging of

documents and XML into an electronic message

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The portal

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The search results

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Documents available

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Statistics / downloads per month

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Actual development

 Data available as re-usable XML

 Access to „old“ paper based or electronic data

 Implementation of

 European Register Identifier (EUID)

 (global) Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

 Transposition of the directive EU/2012/17

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Next steps

 Web services for transmission of court fee information

 Newsletter service

 RSS-feeds

 „virtual company dossier“

 Transparency

 Information for

e.g. prosecutors offices

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New interfaces

 Research interface for back office solutions

 Generic interface for all available register data

 Automated research functions

 Messages from other registers

 Transfer of seats

 Branch disclosure

 Information for supervising authorities (ROC/LEI, tax, etc.)

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Interconnection of registers

 Implementation of e-CODEX services

 National connector

 Gateway

 Interconnection with other countries

(e.g. Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, etc.)

 Start of piloting phase 2nd semester of 2014

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for Business Registration in Germany

Use of Information Technology

for Business Registration in Germany

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