1. Ministry of Justice
of North Rhine-Westphalia
European Commerce Registers’ Forum
Singapore, May 12th 2011

2. Ministry of Justice
of North Rhine-Westphalia
Emphases ECRF 2010/2011
• Technical implementation of the directive
• Open standards for BR2BR communication
• Interconnection of BRs
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3. 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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4. Digital natives /
governorsdata
Is cross-border
convergence
exchange easy?
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5. Ministry of Justice
of North Rhine-Westphalia
Do all national and word-wide systems
connect well together?
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6. 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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7. 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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8. To be regulated – content I Ministry of Justice
of North Rhine-Westphalia
 Governance, management, operation,
representation
 Funding
 Third countries
 Security standards
 Unique identifier
 Languages
 Methods of transmission, incl. choice of platform
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9. To be regulated – content II Ministry of Justice
of North Rhine-Westphalia
 ICT interoperability
 Standardisation
 Non-compliance
 Data protection issues
 Link identification
 Technical transmission standards
 Standard forms of notification
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10. 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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17. Thank you for your attention!
See you in Bonn, Germany, June 2011!