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European Business Register Update
Green Paper; Br to BR links
ECRF - Budapest
June 2010
Outline
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Membership
Traffic & Products
Official Register Data
Service needs
 CNI
 REID
 DOR
 BDS
Next steps
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Membership
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2009-2010 addition of Guernsey, Lithuania and Czech Republic
 25 members, of which 20 are EU Member States
Advanced discussions with Slovak Republic
 hope to finalise accession in the coming months
Strongly encouraged by Commission to seek funding from them to bring coverage
to all 27 MS
Please contact us if you are interested in joining such a project
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Services
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Lithuania went live in June
 we have currently 22 members online
Slovenia started distribution few months ago
Luxembourg distributing from the end of June
 15 distributors
Product increases from existing members
Finalising transition of the French platform to InfoGreffe.
 Gap in the provision of French data will be resolved in the coming weeks
New Platform will see new product
Must move to 24/7 over a reasonable period
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Traffic and Products
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327,000 information retrievals 2009
France back on the network shortly
New proactive distributors
Optimistic that the network can become self financing
Free - but valuable - company search free
 Vital service for Know Your Client activities
 But royalties lag behind the success of the network
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Services used in 2009
P ers onal
A ppointments
9%
P roduc t order
2%
C ompany P rofile
13%
P ers on
Searc h
C ompany
A ppointments
6%
C ompany
Searc h
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Official Register Data
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Changes in Germany well settled down now with Bundesanzeiger the data
provider as the nominee of the Federal authorities
In Belgium we move (both in ECRF and EBR) to the KBO/BCE - The Crossroads Bank
- official BR data provider for Belgium
EBR transfers information from the Business Registers on the basis that it is the
same data as would be retrieved directly from the registers
We need to move to being able to issue certificates to that effect
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Other Activities
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New website online now
 Better connections to distribution options
New Projects
 SPOCS in the Internal Market
 BOWNET
• Survey of Beneficial Ownership information on business registers
• Will be a follow up action of contacting colleagues towards the end of
2010
Respond to the Commission and Council on integration of EBR to e-Justice
 Integration analysis second half of 2010
 Partial integration possible from 2nd half of 2011
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Technical upgrade needs for EBR
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Authentication of message source and integrity
Easier company location and identification
Demand for full document set to allow all BR document types
 Published code lists
 Ease of translation of codes
 Standard messages for user subgroups and purposes
Scalability for new membership and product
Platform now being deployed
 Tested on some partner sites
 To be deployed in Q1 2010
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Requirements identified in BRITE
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Defined the building blocks for communications between business registers
themselves
 Identify registers/registries
 Identify entities in registers
 Authenticate message source
 Enable message definition
 Authenticate message meanings
Provide a new legal context for verifying those components
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Identical to the enhancements of current EBR services
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Central Names Index - CNI
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Enhance searching options for clients
Identified as a vital service in itself
Call to Action at Sundsvall General Meeting
Restructuring data model and import process
Next Steps
 Receive remaining data for Phase 1
 Factor the legal input and usage rules into the design
 Continue with the development of update automation
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Data loaded: 11,337,281 companies…. and counting
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Spain
Estonia
UK
Greece
Guernsey
Ireland
Italy
Jersey
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Lithuania
Netherlands
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Norway
Serbia
Slovenia
Ukraine
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CNI Content
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Company Name
REID
Seat; the city where the company is located particularly if that is needed to
distinguish companies from each other
Name; roman alphabet equivalent
 to cater for Cyrillic alphabets for example
Name Status; indicates if the name is a current name or a previous name of the
company
Name Qualifier; indicates the type of name being provided, for example whether it
is the legal name of the company or a trading name
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Registered Entity ID - REID
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The ability to uniquely identify businesses at a world level – or for our purposes
entities in registers
We are deliberately using the generic term “entities” although what is being
addressed here is primarily the identification of companies
The process of identification can be applied to any entity that is entered in a
register
 Apart from other business types, such as limited liability partnerships, credit
unions or co-operatives, we could also be discussing company directors,
auditors or disqualified persons
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Company Register in CRO, Dublin, Ireland
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ISO Country Code
CROCR
Check Digits
.358843
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Number on the Register
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REID - Usage
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We should conclude that discussion of the REID has proceeded long enough and
that it is now time to deploy it on business registers
Will only require a change as to how numbers are presented - not how they are
stored or processed
Positive response from ECB and Eurostat
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Let’s put together a team of first movers to put it in place this year
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Directory of Registers
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Required for the REID
Established the Repository
Implemented the Portal
As agreed in Sundsvall Yves Gonner will coordinate entry to the directory
Linked to GBRO
 Good coordination essential
 Must not duplicate effort
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Ways of determining the meaning of messages
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Standard Messages
 Work commenced by Yves Gonner last year
Published codelists
 Requires a standard message structure
 Permit any message to be created and transferred
 Permit registers to publish code values
 Enable a process of providing translations of those codes and definitions
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Branch disclosure service - BDS
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Track each night the status of companies - usually to determine if the home
company of a branch is dissolved
Model as launched last year had three issues identified by users - Germany in
particular
 Lack of evidence that programme had run each night
 Lack of a service level agreement
 Difficulty in paying an EEIG for the provision of a service
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BDS - solutions
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Programme changed to make transparent the date and time each entity was
updated
SLA Draft prepared for discussion
Fees not to be imposed this year and if imposed will be determined in accordance
with the following principles:
 The disclosure by the EEIG of the cost of running the service
 The users’ feedback on the value of the service including requests for
enhancements
 The possibility of alternative means of covering costs
Get users to define needs for the next version
 Avoid bespoke solutions
 Learn from each other
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Commission Green Paper
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Followed from the BRITE conclusions
Commission now carrying out impact assessment
EBR working closely with the Commission to find good solutions
EBR response based on three principles
 The fact that the requirements of BR to public and BR to BR communications
are the same
 The fact that Business Registers wish to leverage the financial and
administrative commitments already made
• Including the new task of moving to the new platform
 The fact that the BR to BR traffic envisaged is small relative to the volume of
BR to public traffic
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The Sundsvall Conference
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Under the Swedish EU Council Presidency, Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies
Registration Office) arranged a conference under the heading “Cross Border
Business Information Sharing” in November 2009.
70 delegates from 29 countries
Considered the Commission Green Paper and a presentation on that paper by the
Commission
In considering necessary cooperation between the BRs, and the need to
accomplish a suitable solution for that cooperation, the issue of communication
was explored from the legal, functional and technical perspectives
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Sundsvall unanimous declaration
THE CONFERENCE:
 ACCEPTS the need to establish a standardised and legally valid solution for cross border
cooperation between business registers across Europe as required in the relevant EU
directives and otherwise
 COMMITS TO participation in a process for the identification and implementation of the
necessary actions, including the creation of a standardised and secure messaging
environment; to the early establishment of a directory within which business registers will
be properly identified and the use of a uniform company identification system; to working
with existing projects; to the establishment and identification of the relevant authorities
and institutions to undertake the agreed actions and
 to have a fully functioning infrastructure in place by January 1, 2012
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Tasks
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Definition of the messages that BRs need or wish to exchange
Establishment of an ontology – or way of understanding – those messages
Establishment of the Directory of Register
Establishment of the full index of company names
Deployment of the REID
Completion of the platform
Identify further building blocks
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Institutions
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European Commission (both on Company Law and e-Justice)
The relevant working groups in the Council
The Company Law Experts Group
EBR
ECRF
Participants in the e-Justice domain
For international purposes IACA and CRF
Such other institutions as might be established to regulate BR to BR connections
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We live in a complex world
Propose to join EBR
PT IRN
ECRF
EU/EEA
SK MOJ
PL
LV RE
IM CR
DE NRW
IT UC
CH FCRO
BG
CZ MOJ
RO NTRO
SI SCRS
GI CH
CY
EEA
AT BMJ
HU BMC
ME CRPCC
LI GBOERA
MT
IS
LU RCSL
NO BRC
IE CRO
RO
NL KVK
FI PRH
DE BA
EE CRI
DK DCCA
BE KBO/BCE
TR
MK CRM
GB CH
SE BOLS
IT IC
JE JFSC
AT TA
HR
LT SECR
EU Applicants
GR ACCI
FR INPI
LV LUR
RS SBRA
ES SCR
SI AJPES
GG GR
EBR
UA IRC
Jurisdictions marked CC RRR have different representation in the EBR and the ECRF.
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EBR Commitment
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Work in partnership with the diverse institutions that make up our complex world
Work with the European Commission to establish transparency for businesses
across Europe for both official and public purposes
Complete the new platform to ensure a solid base for communications
Make the services resulting from that work available to the community as a whole
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