31st Conference of European Civil-Law Notaries Interconnection and Quality Salla Saastamoinen, Director of the Directorate for Civil and commercial justice, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission

Interconnection and Quality Quality of justice – ‘connection’ between courts and citizens/parties/lawyers Interconnection between systems Ensuring quality for interconnection

EU Justice Scoreboard a comparative information tool aims to assist the Member States to improve the effectiveness of their national justice systems provides objective, reliable and comparable data on the quality, independence and efficiency of justice systems

EU Justice Scoreboard: Quality Focus on factors that can help improve the quality of justice systems: easy access to justice adequate resources effective assessment tools appropriate standards

Interconnection between national systems Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS) Interconnection of national insolvency registers (IRI) Interconnection of national land registers E-CODEX

Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS)

Future use case: interconnection of beneficial ownership registers Transparency as important element of global anti-money laundering rules Member States required to set up national registers on beneficial owners of companies by 10 January 2020 and of trusts by 10 March 2020 Interconnection of beneficial ownership information for legal entities and trusts via BRIS by 10 March 2021

Interconnection of national insolvency registers (IRI)

Interconnection of Land Registers (LRI)

The e-CODEX system e-CODEX - an interoperable, decentralized and secure system for cross-border data exchanges (can support different procedures) Allows participants to easily interlink their existing or future national systems across borders Consists of an eDelivery building block component and the “e-CODEX connector” which provides additional features (i.a. eSignature verification). Both components are free of charge.

The e-CODEX system (2) Presently used in the piloting of two civil law instruments – European Payment Order and European Small Claims Procedure Citizens and courts are able to submit forms and supporting documents in a matter of seconds The e-Justice Portal will also provide an access point to the e-CODEX network e-CODEX also supports the e-Evidence digital exchange system in the criminal law field

Future use cases Proposed Regulation on service of documents Taking of evidence E-evidence scheme

Ensuring quality in the interconnection Provide transparency and cross-border access to information Define minimum standards on data Ensure quality of information Provide full multilingual support in the official EU languages.

Cross-border access to information

Minimum standards on data (The BRIS example – Directive (EU) 2017/1132) Member States already ensure that the following company information is available free of charge via BRIS: Company name Legal form Registered office and Member State Registration number Any further documents and particulars that Member States want to make available free of charge.

Minimum standards on data (2) (The new Company Law Package) About disqualified directors About changes of information on companies for the registers of branches abroad Once Only Principle

Minimum standards on data (3) (The new Company Law Package) More company information, free of charge, for authorities of other Member States - Object of the company (where available) - Company website (where available) More information, free of charge, for the general public - Legal status of the company (e.g. closed, struck off) - Persons authorised to represent the company - Information on branches

Full multilingual support – EU languages

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