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EBR UpdateECRF; June 2013Paul Farrell
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Outline
• How EBR works• Benchmarks and traffic• Coverage• Developments on services• The directive
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Business Registers
Distributor
Customer
How it works
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Service #Transactions Avg. Total Response
Company Search 1,521,886 2.3s
Company Profile 31,569 1.9s
Company Appointments 11,849 3.0s
Person Search 4,129 6.0s
Personal Appointments 2,730 6.4s
Product Search 171,992 2.7s
Product Order 30,315 5.6s
Retrievals past 12 months
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Service #Transactions Server Latency
Company Search 1,521,886 .222sCompany Profile 31,569 .220sCompany Appointments 11,849 .225sPerson Search 4,129 .223sPersonal Appointments 2,730 .222sProduct Search 171,992 .219sProduct Order 30,315 .283s
Platform performance past 12 months
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Charged searches 2012 2013
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Coverage
• New Members since ECRF 2012 Malta and Gibraltar
• Legislation passed 2013 Romania
• 28 partners• 22 EU Jurisdictions – including Gibraltar
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• The BDS provides a web services interface that facilitates the subscription and notification of company status events
• Track each night the status of companies - usually to determine if the home company of a branch is dissolved
• Current participants Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, UK Over 13,000 registered watches on parent companies ~6% watched companies reported inactive per annum
Branch Disclosure Service (BDS)
• Simple central parent company watch list
• Web service interface allows: BRs to register an interest in parent companies BRs of watched companies to notify the BDS of changes in
company status BRs to retrieve the latest status of watched companies (with
date & time of status)
• Updates are pushed & pulled on a nightly basis
BDS: Implementation
BDS: Norwegian Case Study
• Norway joined BDS in 2011• In 2011: 17,284 Norwegian registered branches • May 2013: 13,784 Norwegian registered branches• Based on BDS information 3,950 branches under
investigation• 3,089 struck off• 861 in strike off process
BDS: Norwegian Case Study
BDS informationreceived
Letter dispatched to branch
Notice of strike off
Branch struck off
10 weeks
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Service - Central Names Index
• Pan-European company search facility• High quality, high performance multi-registry search• Centralised and de-centralised data • Transliteration of character sets• Production system implemented• Pilot (11 million records)• Tested up to ~100 million records• Scheduled for production release 1 October
Directive Gap Analysis
Cross Border Merger Message Support
Advanced Security Model
BR 2 BR Message Inbox
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Messaging System
• Built on top of secure messaging• Using message structures produced in ECRF Working
Group• Simple orchestration through push messaging• Approach not limited to cross-border merger
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Integrated Messaging System
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Contact
Paul FarrellCoordinator
Simona Boscolo BragadinProduct Manager