
COVID-19 Crisis - Notaries of Europe Alongside Citizens and Businesses
The Notariat has always been committed to the computerisation of the procedures concerning public deeds:
In the corporate sector, too, computerisation of the system has given Italy a big boost in the world Doing Business rankings, now making the conditions for the establishment of a business equal to the US and better than Switzerland, Luxembourg, Japan, Austria and Germany.
In 2013 the Notariat launched the Rete Aste Notarili [RAN or Notarial Auctions Network], whereby disposal of the properties of public bodies is handled in a totally computerised manner. The RAN allows citizens to purchase a property simply by going to the office of any of the participating notaries throughout the country without having to travel to the place at which the auction is held.
The Notariat is also working with all those involved for the manifesto on succession and digital identity, two fields in which it is making all its experience available to citizens to ensure that, in the digital world too, they enjoy the right combination of simplicity and certainty of data.
The economic value of the public function of the notary in this area is also demonstrated by the request from the American Bar Association for the participation of three Italian notaries in the task force set up with representatives of the White House and the FBI to find effective solutions to problems associated with digital identity management and the prevention of electronic fraud. In the housing market in particular these problems led among other things to the falsification of thousands of documents prepared to facilitate the expropriation of borrowers' property (“foreclosure-gate” and “robo-signing”).