Unified Identification Number - Carsten Schmidt

Ministry of Justice of

North Rhine-Westphalia

Unified Identification Number

European Identifier, LEI and

Register interconnection

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 11.03.2015



Overview of the presentation

European Unique Identifier for Companies (EUID)

The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Technical solutions in Europe

Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice, 11.03.20152



EUROPEAN UNIQUE IDENTIFIER FOR

COMPANIES (EUID)




The core pillars of the

EU’s Digital Agenda

Core pillars

Digital Single Market

Interoperability and standards

Trust and Security

Very Fast Internet

Research and Innovation

Enhancing eSkills

ICT for social challenges



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Main context of the directive

European Unique Identifier (EUID)

In order to facilitate the interoperability between Company and Branches

Registers, the Directive proposes that both Companies and Branches be

identified with a unique identifier.

Branch disclosure notification

Directive 89/666/EEC requires that the Company Register makes available

without delay the information on the opening and termination of any winding-

up or insolvency proceedings of the company and on the striking-off of the

company.



North Rhine-WestphaliaThe objectives of the regulation

(directive 2012/17/EU)

Improve business register to business register

communication in cross-border operations

Remove (foreign) branches without a (foreign)

company from register

Solve difficulties of cooperation on procedures for

cross-border mergers

Offer better Europe- and world-wide access to

company information to the public

EU directive to regulate the interconnection of the

existing systems



North Rhine-WestphaliaBusiness Registers Interconnection System

(BRIS)

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Citizens Other companies Administrations

PlatformEU Central Platform

Member State A

Business Register 1

Member State A

Business Register 2

E-Justice PortalOther Access point Other Access point

Member State C

Business Register 1

Member State B

Business Register 1

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2Central

Subscription List




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Digital natives / governors

convergenceIs cross-border data

exchange easy?



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Proposed definitions

Branch disclosure event: Any of the following actions/proceedings:

Opening of winding-up

Termination of winding-up

Opening of insolvency proceedings

Termination of insolvency proceedings

Company striking-off

Branch Register: A domestic registry where a branch is registered and is required to file documents. Also used to mean “the register of the branch”.

Company Register: A domestic registry where the company is registered and is required to file documents. Also used to mean “the register of the parent company”.

Competent Branch Register: In the context of BRIS, this term refers to those registers in one or more Member States that must react upon a notification on a cross-border merger or company dissolution event that is notified by another Member State Company register.




Regulated – content I

Governance, management, operation, representation

Funding

Third countries

Unique identifier (LEI, EUID, etc.)

Languages (24 working languages)

Methods of transmission, incl. choice of platform




Regulated – content II

ICT interoperability – synchronous data exchange

Standardisation

• Technical transmission standards

• Standard forms of notification

• Security standards

Data protection issues

Link identification

European electronic access point –

the European e-Justice Portal, Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice, 11.03.201512



Minimum set of information

the name of the company

legal form of the company

the registered office of the company

the Member State where it is registered

the registration number of the company

free of charge






North Rhine-WestphaliaBusiness identification numbers I

Europe: BRITE project to interconnect the European business registers via an unique Register Identifier for Europe (EUID)

BRITE: Business Register Interoperability Throughout Europe

Company Register e.g. Cologne, Germany

ISO Country Code

DE 50670B 345677 60

Number on the Register

Check Digit

. -



North Rhine-WestphaliaBusiness identification numbers II

Europe: The European Commission made two further proposals for an EUID

Name of the Register

ISO Country Code

DE NRW. 09854385 X

Number on the Register

Check Character

-



North Rhine-WestphaliaBusiness identification numbers III

Europe: The European Commission made two further proposals for an EUID

persistent URI like an URL(a direct link from the EU-platform to the national register)

http://bris.europa.eu/le?euid=gb.wales-200701234




THE LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER (LEI)




Cannes Summit Final Declaration, November 4, 2011

We support the creation of a global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) which uniquely identifies parties to financial transactions. We call on the FSB to take the lead in helping coordinate work among the regulatory community to prepare recommendations for the appropriate governance framework, representing the public interest, for such a global LEI by the next Summit.


History of LEI



Objectives and deliverables:

Unique identification of parties to financial transactions;

Strong internal risk management;

Improved regulatory reporting;

Enhanced data aggregation capabilities;

Critical building block for improving financial data infrastructure.

LEI / basic information




- 20 alphanumeric code - ISO-Standard 17442

http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_120307.pdf

- Linked to high quality reference core reference data for each legal entity

CORE LEI DATA ELEMENTS

Legal entity name

Address of the headquarters

Address of legal formation

Business registry ID (where

applicable)

Business registry name (where

applicable)

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER

YUV8PRHOZSRFRC4JO269

What is an LEI?


http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_120307.pdf



LEI in Germany

Two issuing organisations

Interconnection to the business register planned

Exchange of structured data (XML)

Web services to exchange further information

Example:

Deutsche Lufthansa AG =


5299 00 PH63HYJ86ASW55

Issuing Organisation Number in the register

Separator



Statistics of Germany (Pre-LEI)




TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS IN EUROPE





Goal of the e-CODEX Project

“Improve the cross-border access of citizens and

businesses to legal means in Europe

as well as to improve the interoperability

between legal authorities within the EU.”




Participants

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Estonia

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Ireland

Lithuania

Malta

The Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Spain

Slovakia

Turkey

CCBE, CNUE

Partner for a faster justice interoperability


North Rhine-WestphaliaFacts of the project

Started 1st December 2010

23 members

Budget: 24 Mio. Euro

End of the Project in 2015

Piloting started July 2013





Other building blocks

e-Documents and semantics

Piloting and architecture

e-Signature and role mapping



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Architecture overview

Service

Provider/

Register A

Connector

Service

Provider/

Register B

Connector

• Creates

documents

• Sends/receives

documents

• Adds/checks the Trust-OK token

• Transforms to/from e-CODEX standard

• Establishes connection

• Formats/extracts the

content to/from

eBMS3.0 standard



Thank you for your attention!




e-Delivery – Transport platform

reusable transport solution

could be the basis of future European and

world-wide projects

plug&play connection solution for

new countries

companies

based on existing solution

ebMS 3.0 / AS4

Common standards

ISO, OASIS and ETSI



Government & Nonprofit

Unified Identification Number - Carsten Schmidt