1. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Use of Information and Communications
Technology in Business Registration
Rio de Janeiro, 19.03.2014

2. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Overview
 16 German states
 130 Register courts
 4.6 Mio registered entities
 2 different IT-solutions
 1 common portal
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3. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Facts and figures
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Registered entities: 4.612.847
dissolved
aktive

4. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
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The portal

5. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
The search results
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6. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
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7. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Documents available
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8. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Statistics / downloads per month
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9. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Actual development
 Data available as re-usable XML
 Access to „old“ paper based or
electronic data
 Implementation of
 European Register Identifier (EUID)
 (global) Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
 Transposition of the directive
2012/17/EU
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10. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Next steps
 Web services for transmission of court fee information
 Newsletter service
 RSS-feeds
 „virtual company dossier“
 Transparancy
 Information for
e.g. prosecutors offices
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11. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
New interfaces
 Research interface for back office solutions
 Generic interface for all available register data
 Automated reseach functions
 Messages from other registers
 Transfer of seats
 Branch disclosure
 Information for supervising authorities
(ROC/LEI, tax, etc.)
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12. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Interconnection of registers
 Implementation of e-CODEX services
 National connector
 Gateway
 Interconnection with other countries
(e.g. Ireland, France, Austria, etc.)
 Start of piloting phase
2nd semester of 2014
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13. Ministry of Justice
North Rhine-Westphalia
GermanyThank you for your attention!