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ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey 2013

This report analyzes the legal and business dynamics of participating countries/organizations in the ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey. It provides insights into processing time, e-services, costs, fees, charges, and business turnover. The report also highlights recommendations for future surveys and includes new questions on corporate identity theft and annual returns.

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ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey 2013

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  1. ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey 2013 Annika Bränström Stacey-Jo Smith

  2. ECRF working group • Axel Forstmann, Germany • Julia Fatemi, Germany • TanjaKothes, Germany • Frits van Dam, The Netherlands • Trine Blix, Norway • Vito Giannella, Italy • Snezana Tosic, Serbia • Staffan Larsson, Sweden • Annika Bränström, Sweden • Monica Grahn, Sweden • Magdalena Norberg-Schönfeldt, Sweden • Stacey Jo Smith, UK • Hayley Clark, IACA

  3. 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

  4. Number of Participating Countries/ Organisations in the ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey

  5. Participating Countries/Organisations in the 2012 ECRF/CRF/IACA Survey

  6. Chapter 1Legal and institutional settings

  7. Chapter 2Processing Time

  8. Chapter 3e-Services

  9. Chapter 4Cost,Fees and Charges

  10. Chapter 5Business Dynamics

  11. Conclusions in the 2013 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 • Manyjurisdictionsintroducemeasurestopreventcorporateidentitytheft • Mandatory pre-registration activities are more common in Europe • The existence of pre-registration activities has a negative effect on processing-time

  12. Conclusions in the 2013 report (2) • It is more common to send documents electronically in Europe than elsewhere • The usage of e-services has no impact on processing-time and productivity • America and Africa & the Middle East are performing better in business dynamics • There is a positive trend in company turnover in all regions

  13. Outbreak Session – Questions to Discuss • How can the lack of impact of e-services on processing time, fees etc. be explained? • In what areas shouldweprovide the next survey withbetter definitions? • How could jurisdictions in the future be better grouped into different types of clusters? • Important themes to include in the next survey/report?

  14. New questions in the survey for the 2013 report • 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 3rd of June

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