What is the Observatory

The Observatory is a forum for reflection and in depth study of the security of on-line transactions. Its purpose, counting on leaders in the Information Society, is to provide a solution for government and private entities.

Short History

Ever since the possibilities of the virtual world became patented, the General Council of the Profession of the public notary, along with the sixteen notary associations that comprise the public notaries of all Spain, voiced the demand directed at the adaptation of the institutions and their operation to new technological possibilities, making them compatible with the public notary function. The public notaries do not want to lose any of their characteristic functions, but still gain agility, effectiveness and provide better service to the public.

Activities

The bet for a modern public notary took shape in the so called Technological Answer of the Profession, completed later by the constitution of a Observatory with the purpose of evaluating the obtained progress, as well as elaborating proposals of improvement and future projects of implantation and technological development in the notarial profession. These initiatives have come to modernize the activity of the notary through the use of the new technologies: the electronic signature, implanted in fulfilment of the Law 24/2001 has allowed making reality the electronic public document; the centralization of data, unifying and guarantying the secure use of the tools and computer science processes. The creation of a private network of notaries allows the immediate connection and communication between the different offices. All this has concrete applications of which the results can already be enjoyed by the public. It is a reality that you can go to one of the three thousand public notary offices in Spain, even in populations of hardly two thousand inhabitants, and to observe the public notary using his electronic signature and consulting the cadastral data of a building on-line and obtaining from the Virtual Office of the Cadastre the corresponding plane, or communicating with the Mercantile Registry and transfering the request of the name of the society that he wishes to constitute or, even, in some cases, the shipment of the deed of incorporation. It is also possible to directly send the electronic copy of a power that was just signed in order to use that same power in any other notary's office where the proxi is needed, without having to use postal service or mail.