1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

10. Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS)

11. 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

12. Interconnection of national insolvency registers (IRI)

13. Interconnection of Land Registers (LRI)

14. 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.

15. 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

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

18. 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.

19. Cross-border access to information

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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

23. Full multilingual support – EU languages

24. Interconnections - Notaries
EUFides
ARERT
European Directory of Notaries

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