Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

European Commerce Registers’ Forum

Singapore, May 12th 2011

Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, 12.05.2011

Emphases ECRF 2010/2011

• Technical implementation of the directive

• Open standards for BR2BR communication

• Interconnection of BRs

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

The objectives of the directive

Improve business register to business

register communication in cross-border

operations

Remove (foreign) branches without a

(foreign) company from register

Offer better Europe- and world-wide access

to company information to the public

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Digital natives /

governors

convergenceIs cross-border data

exchange easy?

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of North Rhine-Westphalia

Do all national and word-wide systems

connect well together?

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

Working group BR2BR

Working Group of the ECRF to take forward the

idea of a single mechanism to facilitate register to

register interconnection for all EU Member States

and ECRF members which are not in the EU

Requirements of the Governance Authority (GA)

Components required for the implementation of

the GA

Service cases to be exploited

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

Working group BR2BR

Platform for BR to BR communication

Business requirements

Tools that will be needed

Basic structure

Issues to be considered within development

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-WestphaliaTo be regulated – content I

Governance, management, operation,

representation

Funding

Third countries

Security standards

Unique identifier

Languages

Methods of transmission, incl. choice of platform

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-WestphaliaTo be regulated – content II

ICT interoperability

Standardisation

Non-compliance

Data protection issues

Link identification

Technical transmission standards

Standard forms of notification

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Ministry of Justice

of North Rhine-Westphalia

Conference 2011

International Business Register Network -

Ready for a global market!

Germany, Bonn, June 20th - 22nd 2011

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Thank you for your attention!

See you in Bonn, Germany, June 2011!