6th International Conference of
the Commerce Registers of Europe

Sevilla, 12-13 June 2003

Rethinking the e-CRegister

Objectives:

-Back to basics. What is the Commerce/Business Register for?

-International Cooperation between national company registration offices

-Yet Another Discussion on Modernising the e-CRegister

 e-CRegister Filing
   
 Processing & Storage
          
 Dissemination of information

-ECRFORUM¥s initiatives.

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 11 June  

21:30 - Official reception at the Reales Alc·zares.  

Thursday, 12 June  

9:00 - Registration. 

9:30 - Opening session by Luis Fern·ndez del Pozo, President of ECRF.  

10:00 - Keynote address by Rafael Catal· Polo, Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain.  

10:30 - Coffee break.  

11:00 - Morning Session chaired by Luis Fern·ndez del Pozo, President of ECRF. 

Scheduled presentations:  

a)     "Registration Publicity in Europe.  Towards a European Registration Space".  Rafael Arenas.  Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

b)      "EBR. New Development and Initiatives". Vito Gianella 

c)      "Rhetinking the Register. Towards the european Registers". Project Aequitas.  Mayte Hurtado. TB Solutions. 

d)      "Requirements and Effects of Registration.  Principles of Registration".  Pablo Casado, Mercantile Registrar.  Spain. 

e)      "On the Situation of Commerce-Registry Reform in the Federal Republic of Germany".  Heinz Willer. 

13:30     Lunch.  

15:00Ý Afternoon session chaired by Erik Fossum.  Norway.

Scheduled presentations:  

f)       "On the ìVisibilityî of Internet Portals in the Different European Registration Systems".  Consultantsí report by Landwell. 

g)      "ECRFORUM Benchmarking" by Annika Br”nstr–m. 

h)      "Comparative Report on SME Chartering Processes in a Selection of European Countries".  Landwell. 

i)       "Registration Experience in Other Latitudes:  e-strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region".  Lynn Lynch.  Companies House.  Great Britain. 

j)       "Legal Sectionís Report".  D–rtthe Koerner.  Norway.  

k)      "Using Accounting Data for Statistics. XBRL and International Accounting Principles". Manuel Ortega Ortega, Head of the Central Balance Sheet Data Office Division.

21:30 Departure for conference dinner. 

Friday, 13 June  

10:00 Morning session. Chaired by RÈgis Gras. France.

Scheduled presentations: 

l)         "Modernisation of the First Law Directive".  Dominique Thienpont.  EU Commission. 

m)      "Environment and Registration Publicity".  JosÈ Luis Salazar, Director of the Environment Department at the Professional Association of Registrars of Spain. 

n)    Ý    Experiences in On-line Company Chartering:

                Pascal Beder. France.

                Denmark. 

o)        "Progress on cr XML". Paul Farrel. Ireland. 

p)       "Checking Company Names for Novelty. Experience of the Central Mercantile Registry of Spain".  JosÈ Luis Benavides, Mercantile Registrar. 

12:45 Closing speech by Luis de Guindos, Secretary of State of Economy of the Kingdom of Spain.

13:45 Closing session by next president.  

15:00 ECRFORUM General Assembly.