         On the European Commission's website, in the section of the dedicated internal market information system (IMI), an
         Atlas of each Member State's Business Register in all Union languages could present the
         legal foundation of the business register law in force in that State and list all official sites.
         This Atlas could be based on the template of the Judicial Atlas in Civil Matters.

   This number would identify the same entity with a presence in various European Union
   countries. This number could be based on the principles established by BRITE.

   A subsection could be created in the Atlas of European Business Registers devoted
   exclusively to commercial companies which, for each company listed, would display 10 key
   pieces of information uploaded by the various business registers in each Member State,with
   a link to national sites listing the company searched for.

   New technologies would make it easy for Member States to publish their information to the
   Atlas using web services requiring only modest investment and maintenance. This would
   guarantee the authenticity of the information published.

   The 10 key pieces of information about commercial companies registered on States'
   business registers could be:

   An improved network of Member States' business registers is necessary, indeed crucial.

   It must be drawn exclusively from each country's official business register, not from private
   providers. This would guarantee the legal and official nature of the data as well as offer the
   possibility of creating future links with the judicial system and with "officially appointed
   mechanisms for the central storage of regulated information" in each country as well as with all fiscal bodies and
   administrations or regulatory bodies, including those at a European level.

   The network must strengthen communication between business registers in the context of
   crossborder transactions, mergers and transfers of head offices, as well as the proper
   understanding of legal and financial data of European groups (those with subsidiaries in
   various Member States).

   For this it will be necessary to eventually standardize the data contained in the European
   business and companies registers.

   If these actions are not undertaken in the near future, they will become even more necessary
   as a result of simplification and digitization of procedures carried out at the European
   Commission's initiative, in particular under the Services Directive (electronic registration) and
   the Transparency Directive (electronic consultation), implying the immediate interoperability
   of European registers.

   Since the objective is to form a harmonized European market based on the same values,
   Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) indices should be published on the business and
   companies register to enable contractors to find out about potential partners.


       digitization standards which are recognized in Europe, nonproprietary, free of copyright and
       also capable of interconnecting with other authorities, namely:



      The National Council of Business Registrars, as a partner of the Guichet Unique Francais
       "onestop shop" initiative (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment General
       Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services) has already made its electronic data
       exchange, traceability and archiving system modules available to the French State in relation
       to electronic formalities.

      France decided to allow judicial authorities
       and the Ministry of Justice access to electronically view registrations on the registers of legal
       notices maintained by registrars.

      Infogreffe is partnering with the General Directorate for State Modernization for the
       implementation of a simplified electronic procedure for transferring a head office and
       submitting information to all relevant bodies (simplification procedure)

      SinceJuly2008,Infogreffe has made corporate accounts of companies listed on the business
       and companies register available to users in XBRL format, the format used by numerous
       other European registers, and according to a reference system declared to be compliant by
       the National Accounting Council. This was done in order to facilitate comparison of financial
       data at a European level.

      The National Council of Business Registrars and Commercial Courts and Infogreffe GIE are
       monitoring initiatives to harmonize standards, especially in relation to annual accounts (in
       France around 800 international public groups apply IFRS standards) and European
       referencing of companies (BRITE proposal)and have already begun work on IFRS annual
       accounts.
