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Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
The German Commercial RegisterA case study – How IT can help
Budapest, June 14th, 2010
Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
<Name>, Justizministerium NRW 02.07.2007
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Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
16 States (Länder)
130 Commercial Register
16 Points Of Presence
Business Register Portal
www.handelsregister.de
Commercial Register in Germany
Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Tim Goebbels, VPS RegisSTAR NRW 14.06.2010
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The Legal Background
Public register run by state courts in the 16 states. Entry is compulsory for nearly all German companies.
Provides reliable information on
– status of companies, – their legal representatives /officers, – capitalisation and more.
Serves as a repository for important corporate documents. Entries solely based on notarized applications. Entries provide full proof of their content.
About 800.000 applications a year.
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Nordrhein-Westfalen
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The Legal Background
Commercial registers are kept and accessible electronically.
Applications and other documents are exclusively accepted in electronic form.
Applications are submitted as electronic notarial documents.
Notary has to provide additional structured data to enable
quick entry and increased productivity in register departments.
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The Practical Consequences
Entry into the Commercial Register is no longer a bureaucratic obstacle, but an efficient service rendered by notaries and courts.
The German system of commercial law, based on transparancy and trust in public registers, has been maintained complying with the demands of modern procedures and EU regulation.
The electronic publication of information on commercial enterprices reduces costs and increases accessibility.
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www. Handelsregister.de
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Nordrhein-Westfalen
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www. Handelsregister.de
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Nordrhein-Westfalen
www.handelsregister.de
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Nordrhein-Westfalen
<Name>, Justizministerium NRW 02.07.2007
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www. Handelsregister.de
Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Technical Overview
Individual States can deploy their own systems NRW represents the Federal Government At a federal level the consolidation of data is
harmonised Federal notary/digital signature systems available to
all States 2 distinct application choices for states– RegisSTAR (12)
– Aureg (4)
<Name>, Justizministerium NRW 02.07.2007
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Nordrhein-Westfalen
Technical Overview
Commercial Courts exist within a State and with an associated State MoJ
All actors within the system external and internal to the courts are identified by digital signatures
Courts feed data to a state and a Federal level All submissions to the court are electronically
signed (X-Notar) and provided by notaries The digitally signed payloads to the courts are
both structured and binary
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Technical Overview
Courts process submissions based on State legislation/local business rules
Applications are configured to accommodate these rules (still only 2 apps for 16 states)
Submissions are routed to individual judges within the courts
Long form and short form extracts compiled from the Register represent the entire list of events associated with the entity during its life cycle
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Future – German Federal
Considerable achievements to achieve a single consolidated view of Business in Germany
Federal Government plans to research the means of creating a single application for all States – Konvergenz Project
Project seeks to create a single code base at local level that meets the needs of ALL States
Two years research followed by development of the required applications
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Thank you for your attention!
Budapest, June 14th 2010Tim Goebbels
