2. ECRF/CRF Survey
2012
Annika Bränström
Stacey-Jo Smith

3. ECRF working group
• Axel Forstmann, Germany
• André Nowak, Germany
• Tanja Kothes, Germany
• Frits van Dam, The Netherlands
• Trine Blix, Norway
• Vito Giannella, Italy
• Adriana Luminita Iacob, Romania
• Snezana Tosic, Serbia
• Staffan Larsson, Sweden
• Annika Bränström, Sweden
• Ronald Telson, Sweden
• Magdalena Norberg-Schönfeldt, Sweden
• Stacey Jo Smith, UK
• (Hayley Clark, IACA)

4. Survey purpose
• 2002 – 2009 The starting years
– Basic statistics on registries and trends
– Basic report, limited analyses
– Base for benchmarking between registries
• 2010 – 2011 Improvements
– Improve the ground for policy learning
– Review the survey
– Produce a more analytical and coherent report
– Find a more solid and long term organisation for future surveys and
reports
• 2012 – Make it global
– Include more countries/organisations in the survey
– Keep on improving the survey and the report

5. Number of Participating Countries
or Jurisdictions in the 2011 ECRF/CRF survey
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
CRF 0 0 0 11 14 12 17 21
ECRF 20 29 31 31 28 29 31 29
Participants by Year

6. ECRF and CRF Participants
ECRF CRF
Austria** Italy** Botswana* Mongolia
Azerbaijan Jersey** Israel* New Zealand**
Belgium* Liechtenstein** Jordan Pakistan**
Belgium* Lithuania** Lesotho Singapore**
Croatia* Luxembourg** Mauritius* Azerbaijan
Czech Republic* Macedonia South Africa** Georgia
Estonia** Netherlands** Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Finland Norway** British Virgin Islands*
France** Romania** Canada**
Georgia Serbia* Colombia
Germany* Slovenia* Australia**
Gibraltar* Spain* Cook Islands*
Guernsey* Spain, Central* Hong Kong
Ireland Sweden** India
Isle of Man* Switzerland** Malaysia*
United Kingdom**
* = 2010, 2011 Trend data available ** = 2007, 2010 and 2011 Trend data available

8. Chapter 1
Legal and institutional settings

9. Who Operates the Registry
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Africa & ME America Asia-Pac Europe
Public/Private Partnership 0% 0% 0% 10%
Other 0% 25% 22% 17%
Government 100% 50% 78% 47%
Court of Justice 0% 0% 0% 20%
Chamber of Commerce 0% 25% 0% 7%

10. Registration of a National Branch of a Foreign Company
120%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Africa & ME America Asia-Pac Europe
Required 60% 100% 50% 86%
Not Required 40% 0% 50% 14%

11. Registration of Branches of National Companies in Foreign EU
Countries
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Africa & ME America Asia-Pac Europe
Required 25% 75% 13% 36%
Not Required 75% 25% 88% 64%

12. Provision of a Registration Number for Branches
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
National Foreign National Foreign National Foreign National Foreign
Companies Companies Companies Companies Companies Companies Companies Companies
Africa & ME America Asia-Pac Europe
Yes 60% 80% 100% 100% 13% 63% 38% 90%
No 40% 20% 0% 0% 88% 38% 62% 10%

13. Chapter 2
Processing Time

17. Chapter 3
e-Services

21. Chapter 4
Cost, Fees and Charges

25. Chapter 5
Business Dynamics

29. Conclusions in the 2012 report (1)
• European registries seem to be more empowered
• The general trend is to provide companies with a
unique identification number
• It is a common practice in all regions to register a
national branch of a foreign company
• Mandatory pre-registration activities are more
common in Europe
• The existence of pre-registration activities has a
negative effect on processing-time
• No general trend for decreased processing time
compared to 2010
2013-03-20

30. Conclusions in the 2012 report (2)
• It is more common to send documents electronically
in Europe than elsewhere
• The usage of e-services has very limited impact on
processing-time and productivity
• Africa & the Middle East are performing better in
business dynamics
• There is a positive trend in company turnover in all
regions
2013-03-20

31. Some concluding remarks regarding the
next report (2013)
A number of new countries/organisations were invited to participate in the
2013 survey, those were:
• Anguilla • Nevada
• Brazil - Alagoas Maceio • Newfoundland and Labrador
• Canada, Nova Scotia • North Carolina
• Canada, Saskatchewan • Ohio
• China - Shenzhen Municipality • Oregon
• Delaware • Papua New Guinea
• Gambia, the • Russia
• Hawaii • Texas
• Kansas • Turkey
• Kiribati • Uganda
• Louisana • Utah
• Manitoba • Washington DC
• Michigan • Washington State
• Moldova • Wisconsin
• Montana

32. New questions in the survey for
the report 2013
• A question about corporate identity theft has been
included
• More types of companies (limited companies and US
LLC)
• Questions about Annual returns
• In all 23 amended and improved questions
• The 2013 report will be published on the 10th of
May

33. • WEB – www.corporateregistersforum.org
• http://www.ecrforum.org/