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Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
The German Commercial Register
A case study – How IT can help
Budapest, June 14th, 2010
Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
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<Name>, Justizministerium NRW
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Commercial Register in Germany
16 States (Länder)
130 Commercial Register
16 Points Of Presence
Business Register
Portal
www.handelsregister.de
Die Justiz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen
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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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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www. Handelsregister.de
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www.handelsregister.de
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www. Handelsregister.de
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<Name>, Justizministerium NRW
02.07.2007
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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)
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<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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Nordrhein-Westfalen
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 2010
Tim Goebbels