Information on the publishing of official announcements online by EU countries
An official announcement is the publication of official judicial and governmental announcements which are not of a legislative nature or do not in any other sense contain binding rules, and which are published in electronic form in State Gazettes and/or Official Journals.
Many EU countries make their official announcements available online. However, the legal frameworks and practices affecting how this is done varies between countries. In order to assist in making these publications more accessible this section collects the information on how each EU country publishes their official announcements online
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The InfoDeska (InfoBoard) application is the electronic notice board of the Ministry of Justice.
Important announcements relating to court proceedings.
The Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic, courts, Public Prosecutor’s offices.
Yes.
The basis search is by the organisation that has issued the document (Ministry of Justice, courts, Public Prosecutor’s offices).
On the notice board of a particular court it is then possible to search by subject matter, publication date, file reference.
The InfoDeska application contains documents published after 1 January 2009.
Yes, in Moje InfoDeska (My InfoBoard) it is possible to subscribe to e-mail alerts for new documents.
Official announcements are not freely available as open data.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Official announcements are inserted into Statstidende and published at https://statstidende.dk/.
Until 14 October 2005 Statstidende was also published on paper.
Specific compulsory announcements with legal effect for citizens, undertakings and authorities, as well as certain non-compulsory announcements, are published in Statstidende.
Among other things, announcements concerning estates of deceased persons (e.g. advertisement for creditors), estates in bankruptcy (e.g. bankruptcy orders), company reorganisations, writs and similar court summonses, sales by order of a court and elections and referendums are published.
Announcements from courts, lawyers, public institutions and private undertakings are published.
Access to both one-off and permanent searches is free of charge (see below).
Statstidende has been published electronically since 2000. As of 15 October 2005 Statstidende is published only in electronic form.
Permanent searches can be set up. This is free of charge, but requires registration as a user.
It is also possible to subscribe to the day's pdf version of Statstidende. On days on which Statstidende is published, an e-mail will therefore be received with the day's Statstidende in pdf format.
Open data is available to everyone through REST search at https://statstidende.dk. Work on a technical enhancement of Statstidende is currently under way. In this connection, consideration is being given to whether this option should continue to be provided.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Since Germany is a federal state, the Länder arrange the publication of their own official announcements. They have created their own websites for this purpose. The links to some of these can be found on the Justice Portal of the Federal Government and the Länder (Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder). The information below relates solely to publications by the federal government.
Publication | Form of publication |
Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) | Electronic copy of the official print version only. |
Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) | Official section; judicial section |
Federal Tax Gazette (Bundessteuerblatt) | In both printed and electronic format. |
Joint Ministerial Gazette (Gemeinsames Ministerialblatt) | In both printed and electronic format. |
Transport Gazette (Verkehrsblatt) | In both printed and electronic format. |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | In electronic format only. Print versions of the official manuals can be purchased from retailers; the Federal Ministry of Finance does not offer them in this format. |
Publication | Types of announcements |
Federal Law Gazette | Laws, international treaties, ordinances, announcements, injunctions, guidelines and certain decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court. |
Federal Gazette | Legal regulations, other official announcements, tenders, guidelines and judicial notices. The judicial notices comprise court publications concerning the litigation register under the Capital Investors’ Test Cases Act (Kapitalanleger-Musterverfahrensgesetz), public notifications, criminal cases, summons of persons and calls for documents, debarment rulings, securities cancellations and other decisions, summons of third parties, bankruptcies, insolvency proceedings and the register of anonymous and pseudonymous works. |
Federal Tax Gazette | Tax-related legal provisions and administrative orders, rulings by the Federal Fiscal Court. |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | Tax-related legal provisions and administrative orders, rulings by the Federal Fiscal Court. |
Transport Gazette | Official provisions on transport, calls for missing vehicle ownership and registration certificates. |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | Official manuals: overview, in digital format, of all the official manuals issued by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The online version of the official manuals provides quick access to laws, regulations, rules and guidance on the specified assessment periods. |
Publication | Publishing body |
Federal Law Gazette | Federal government authorities |
Federal Gazette | Federal and Länder authorities, courts and public prosecutors |
Federal Tax Gazette | Federal Ministry of Finance and the highest tax authorities in the Länder |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | All federal ministries listed on the front page |
Transport Gazette | All federal ministries, the vehicle registration authorities in the Länder |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | Federal Ministry of Finance |
Publication | Free to access |
Federal Law Gazette | Yes (read-only access) |
Federal Gazette | Yes |
Federal Tax Gazette | Partially (not the most recent publications or older publications) |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | Tables of contents only |
Transport Gazette | Titles of official announcements only (a fee must be paid to access the content) |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | Digital publications: yes. Print versions of the official manuals can be purchased from retailers; the Federal Ministry of Finance does not offer them in this format. |
Publication | Search criteria |
Federal Law Gazette | Free of charge: none. For a fee: full text search, search by citation, heading, subsection number, issue date, year of promulgation and part. |
Federal Gazette | Term, part, publication period, publication type, publishing authority/court (administrative and judicial sections); reference, title (official section); file number (judicial section). |
Federal Tax Gazette | Type of tax, type of document, sequence of rules, date, file number, document number, Land, subject/main principle, reference. |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | Edition, page number, year, and full text search. |
Transport Gazette | Field, title, search terms, date, regulation number. |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | Full text search and clickable table of contents. |
Publication | Date first available |
Federal Law Gazette | The electronic version of Federal Law Gazette Section 1 has been available at the same time as the print version since 1998; the electronic version of Federal Law Gazette Section 2 has been available at the same time as the print version since 1999. |
Federal Gazette | Individual publications since 30 August 2002. |
Federal Tax Gazette | Possible to search editions published since 1992. |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | Possible to search editions published since 1950. |
Transport Gazette | Possible to search editions published since 1947. |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | Income Tax Manual: available in electronic format since 2017. |
Publication | Auto-search | Open data |
Federal Law Gazette | No | No |
Federal Gazette | Only as an information service for a fee | No |
Federal Tax Gazette | No | No |
Joint Ministerial Gazette | No, only the publication date for the next edition | No |
Transport Gazette | No | No |
Website of the Federal Ministry of Finance | No |
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Important public announcements are published on the website of the official publication Ametlikud Teadaanded (Official Announcements). In some cases, legislation also requires the publication of announcements in newspapers.
The official online publication Ametlikud Teadaanded has been published only in electronic format since 1 July 2003. It is also a database incorporated into the State Information System. Ametlikud Teadaanded is available to all free of charge at https://www.ametlikudteadaanded.ee/.
Notices, invitations and announcements which must be published by law or according to a regulation of the Government of the Republic or ministerial regulation.
Two types of announcements are published in Ametlikud Teadaanded:
Announcements required for the performance of the functions of State and local authorities and representatives of liberal professions (e.g. notaries, bailiffs) are published in Ametlikud Teadaanded. Announcements of private legal entities which must be published by law and which are published for public interest purposes, i.e. which are intended to inform the general public (e.g. division and dissolution of companies), are also published.
Access to all announcements published in Ametlikud Teadaanded is free of charge.
A State fee must be paid in order to publish an announcement in the interests of a private individual, for example, a notice of the loss of a document.
Published announcements can be searched by type, title, publisher and area of influence or using the full text search function.
The ‘My Official Announcements’ (Minu Ametlikud Teadaanded) service enables a person to subscribe to receive various types of announcements at their e-mail address and to view archived announcements regarding themselves, the publication of which has been discontinued. Publication of an announcement intended for a particular person is discontinued and the announcement is archived when publication has served its purpose. Publication of this type of announcement is also discontinued when the person confirms receipt of the announcement with their ID card, using the service ‘My Official Announcements’.
1 July 2003. The Ametlikud Teadaanded website also includes announcements published earlier on paper and intended to inform the general public.
A person can subscribe to receive all announcements by e-mail and save announcements by using the ‘My Official Announcements’ service. Using the ‘My Official Announcements’ service requires authentication with the person’s ID card or mobile ID. The ‘My Official Announcements’ service enables a person to view archived Ametlikud Teadaanded announcements concerning themselves and see who else has read archived announcements concerning them.
It is also possible to use URIs to search for and retrieve announcements in Ametlikud Teadaanded. The uniqueness of a URI depends on how many URI components are used. A URI can be used to open one or more published announcements in HTML format, which is similar to a search result, or as an XML or XML-RDF file.
Announcement URIs make it possible to open publicly available announcements which are not intended to be made known to a particular person and the publication of which has not been discontinued.
To use a URI, a web address corresponding to the publication data of the announcement of interest must be created.
More detailed instructions for URI-based searches are available at https://www.ametlikudteadaanded.ee/avalik/uriotsing.
Announcements which are not intended to be made known to particular natural persons, i.e. announcements intended as information for the general public, are available as open data. Announcements which are no longer published and which have been archived are not available as open data.
Open data are downloadable in real time as URIs. The uniqueness of a URI depends on how many URI components are used. A URI can be used to open one or more published announcements in HTML format, which is similar to a search result, or as an XML or XML-RDF file. To use a URI, a web address corresponding to the publication data of the announcement of interest must be created.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Irish government publications from government departments and agencies, including news, press releases, and reports.
https://www.gov.ie/en/publications/
Iris Oifigiúil is the official means used by the Irish Government for announcing appointments to public offices and publishing proclamations, statutory instruments, appointment of receivers to companies, etc.
Prima Facie evidence of any proclamation, order, rule, regulation, bye-law, or other official document may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a copy of the Iris purported to contain such matter (Documentary Evidence Act 1925 ss.3-4). Notices in relation to many matters concerning companies must be published in the Iris within six weeks of the delivery to the Registrar of Companies. (S I No 163 of 1973; Companies Amendment Act 1983 s.55).
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National Printing Office (Ethnikó Typografeío)
Council of State (Symvoúlio tis Epikrateías)
National Printing Office: The material published in the Government Gazette is laid down in Article 7 of Law 3469/2006, as in force.
Transparency: All the laws, presidential decrees and acts that must be published on the internet are laid down in Article 2 of Law 3861/2010, as in force.
Supreme Court: Civil and criminal court judgments delivered in or after 2007 are searchable online.
Council of State: Administrative court judgments are searchable online.
National Printing Office: (Publication in the Government Gazette) announcements are published by the body concerned, at the request of a public body or a body in the broader public sector.
Transparency: The announcements referred to in Article 2 of Law 3861/2010 are published on the internet without delay by the body making the announcement.
Supreme Court: Announcements are published by the body concerned.
Council of State: Announcements are published by the body concerned.
YES
Searches for terms, keywords or phrases, register numbers, judgment numbers, issue numbers, themes, categories, types, bodies, dates.
National Printing Office: 1997
Transparency: 2010
Supreme Court: 2007
Council of State: 2016
No
Yes.
Each body is responsible for the functioning and content of the database of official announcements that it manages. Thus the repository and/or technical information are kept by the relevant bodies in their in-house databases.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Official announcements are published in the various official gazettes corresponding to the different levels of central, regional and local government that make up Spain’s Administration.
All gazettes have official, authentic versions published electronically, and provide database services that can be used to locate published announcements.
The websites are the following:
State: https://www.boe.es
17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities: all websites can be accessed via https://www.boe.es/legislacion/otros_diarios_oficiales.php#boletines_autonomicos
Local authorities (provincial official gazettes): all websites can be accessed via https://www.boe.es/legislacion/otros_diarios_oficiales.php#boletines_provinciales
All public administrations, each in its corresponding official gazette.
The courts.
Yes.
The law permitting electronic publication of official gazettes was adopted in 2007.
Yes, for the Spanish Official State Gazette and most of the official gazettes for the autonomous communities and cities. The function is not widely available for provincial official gazettes.
The open data policy depends on each official gazette, some of which have open data and xml format.
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Official announcements are published on the website of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia and on the e-Notice board of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia.
https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/ (the Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia)
https://e-oglasna.pravosudje.hr/ (the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia)
Announcements regarding public procurement, e-auctions, concessions, competitions, job vacancies, notifications on companies, announcements by chambers, decisions on the initiation of bankruptcy and shortened bankruptcy proceedings, decisions on legal incapacity, liquidations, judicial and notary public announcements, entries in a court register, etc. are published on the e-Notice board.
Yes. It is free of charge.
It is possible to search the websites of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia using a term, date of announcement, type of announcement or specific area of announcement (e.g. exchange rate);
It is possible to search the e-Notice board using a file mark, a copy name, the subject that the advertisement refers to or a PIN.
Announcements in electronic form have been published since January 2014 on the website of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia.
The e-Notice board software application was established, i.e. commissioned on 1 November 2014.
The Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia has established a notification system for public announcements which refer to public procurement procedures (Electronic public procurement announcement tool) – the notifications for end users are sent to the email address or to a personalised electronic mailbox.
No user notification system has been established for announcements which are published on the e-Notice board. The exceptions are the Tax Administration (Porezna uprava) and the Financial Agency (Financijska agencija; FINA), for which the Ministry of Justice has established a web service through which those institutions can download data from the e-Notice board (several times) daily.
The official announcements are not available as open data.
The official announcements are not available as open data.
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They are published in hard copy format, which is the format with legal effect, and on the Internet, freely accessible at http://www.mof.gov.cy/gpo
The following announcements are published: vacant posts in the public sector, public tenders, expropriations and requisitions, appointments, promotions and confirmation and revocation of appointments, retirements, appointments of office-holders’ deputies, resignations, appointments of ministers, death notices, arrival, departure and deputisation for the President of the Republic, appointments of the President of the Republic, decisions of the Council of Ministers and of the Parliament, government and private members’ bills, international agreements, departmental organisation charts, and announcements required by legislation, e.g. by the Companies Act
Yes
All contents which are published in the Cyprus Government Gazette (Epísimi Efimerída)
As of 10 December 2004
No
Official announcements are freely available as open data on the website of the Government Printing Office (Kyvernitikó Typografeío): http://www.mof.gov.cy/gpo
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In Latvia, official announcements are published in Latvijas Vēstnesis, the official gazette of the Republic of Latvia..
The following classes of notice are published in the official gazette:
The official gazette publishes official announcements submitted by authorities and institutions or by individuals (entries in public registers, notices, announcements or information from public entities and their officials and from individuals) where the official publication of such announcements is provided for in legislation.
List of laws and regulations providing for official publication.
Yes.
The search can be made by entering free text.
Results can be filtered by year of publication and class of notice.
On the site of the official gazette https://www.vestnesis.lv the electronic version of all issues of the official gazette is available from the date of its first publication, namely 25 February 1993.
For documents that appeared up to 1 July 2012, the official publication is the one in the print version of the gazette.
No.
No, but the official announcements are available for re-use of information. More on the re-use of the information published in the official gazette.
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Official announcements are published here.
Official announcements are as follows:
Official announcements are published by Ministries, public bodies, the Courts of Justice and local councils.
Yes.
Free text.
Official announcements have been available in electronic format since June 2003.
This service is not available.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
Official announcements are published on officielebekendmakingen.nl. You can find old announcements here.
All announcements that appear in the Netherlands’ seven official journals are published on the above websites. New or amending legislation is published in the Staatsblad (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees). The Staatscourant (Government Gazette) is used to publish regulations, as well as announcements by government organisations if their inclusion in this publication is legally required. Treaties and other international agreements to which the Netherlands is a party are published in the Tractatenblad (Treaty Series), while the Provinciaal blad (Provincial Gazette), Gemeenteblad (Municipal Gazette) and Waterschapsblad (Water Authority Gazette) are used to publish regulations of and announcements by provincial, municipal and water authorities respectively. The Blad gemeenschappelijke regelingen (Joint Local Authority Arrangements Gazette) is used to publish regulations of and announcements by partnerships between different public authorities.
All organisations that are legally required to publish their announcements.
Yes, access to the official announcements is free of charge.
The current day’s announcements can be viewed at officielebekendmakingen.nl. Here you can only filter your search by publication name.
At zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl you can search for words in the title or text and filter your search by publication date, publication name, publishing organisation and subject (for which there is a fixed list of options).
1995.
Anyone can register for a notification service free of charge. Two types of service are available:
The official announcements are freely available as open data via an SRU interface (SRU = Search/Retrieve via URL).
The guide (and address) for this web service can be found at koopoverheid.nl (in Dutch only).
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
The following types of announcements are published on the https://www.justiz.gv.at/ website:
The following announcements are published on the https://edikte.justiz.gv.at/ (Ediktsdatei – ‘Edict file’) website:
By the Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesministerium für Justiz)
By courts, public prosecutors, lawyers and notaries
Yes
The website of the Ministry of Justice (Homepage der Justiz) offers a simple word search which checks all documents on the website.
All categories on the Ediktsdatei website provide the option of a word search. In addition, for several categories of announcements users can search by file number. For auctions a search by object is also available. These are just some examples of search types as there is such a wide variety of search options across the various categories.
The website of the Ministry of Justice (Homepage der Justiz) and the Ediktsdatei website have been online since 2000.
No
The announcements on the Ediktsdatei website are freely available and can also be reprocessed as HTML files (there is no copy protection). A licence can also be obtained under the 2022 Reuse of Public Information Act (Informationsweiterverwendungsgesetz 2022 – IWG) – link here. However, the data are currently unavailable in open data format.
The publications on https://www.justiz.gv.at/ relate predominantly to existing documents in PDF format. There are some MS Word documents, although this is rare. All publications are rendered as freely available HTML pages as part of the WCMS (web content management system). The documents are available for download as attachments on the HTML pages.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective Member State. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. The European Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.
They are published on the website of the Portuguese official gazette, the Diário da República Eletrónico.
The Diário da República is made up of two series. Series 1 contains publications of:
In addition to other acts that must be published in Series 2, the following are published in Series 2:
Acts published in Series 2 of the Diário da República can be of the following types: agreement, announcement, arbitration ruling, balance sheet, collective employment agreement, commendation, contract, correction declaration, court ruling, declaration, deliberation, directive, edict, extension regulation, instruction, judgment, legislative order, list, map, membership agreement, ministerial implementing order, notice, notice of the Bank of Portugal, official map, official statement, opinion, order, permit, protocol, recommendation, regulation, regulation of the Securities Market Commission, regulatory standard of the Securities and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority, report, resolution, ruling and trial balance. Also included are urgent tender notices, procedure notices, deadline extension notices and notice correction declarations.
The bodies legally responsible for or involved in publishing acts in the Diário da República include: the Presidency of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic, the Government, the legislative assemblies and regional governments of the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira, direct and indirect public administration, the courts, the public prosecutor, independent administrative bodies, and local authority autonomous administration and bodies.
Yes. Under Decree-Law No 83/2016 of 16 December, the Diário da República is a public service open to everyone and free of charge. It is published only in electronic form. Decree Law No 83/2016
Universal and free access includes the possibility of printing, filing, searching and freely accessing the content of acts published in Series 1 and 2 of the Diário da República, in open-access electronic formats.
The electronic edition of the Diário da República has been authentic and the pacts published in it valid for all legal purposes since 1 July 2006, pursuant to Article 1(5) of Law No 74/98 of 11 November 1998, as currently in force.
In addition, July 2019 saw the launch of the Diário da República mobile application with extra functions, such as creating a personalised profile for each user and the use of a notification system with access to consolidated legislation.
Yes. Specifically regarding the sending of notifications, users are able to receive the indexes of Series 1 and 2 of the Diário da República by e-mail, by prior registration or by RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscription.
Yes.
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The information on this page concerns the official announcements issued by public institutions (notices, procedural acts etc.), which are not legislative in nature or which do not establish generally applicable obligations, but which are published in the Official Gazette of Romania or in other publications, and are available online in electronic form, in accordance with the applicable law. Thus, neither legislative acts nor court judgments are considered, except for those which must be published in order to acquire a certain legal effect (e.g. insolvency-related court judgments).
The material is not exhaustive, as it approaches certain relevant cases from the viewpoint of publication of official announcements, more specifically: acts published in the Official Gazette of Romania, acts published on the portal and website of the National Trade Register (Oficiul Național al Registrului Comerțului) or in the Insolvency Bulletin, and acts published on the Portal of Courts.
I. The Official Gazette of Romania
The “Monitorul Oficial” Autonomous Company publishes the Official Gazette of Romania in both printed and electronic format. For details on the published acts, and on their online availability, please see the following sections.
The e-product (e-Monitor) is available at this address.
II. The National Trade Register (ONRC)
a) Before they start their economic activity, professionals have the obligation to apply for registration/listing in the trade register, and during their operation of business or upon termination of business, they must request the addition of notes to the trade register as regards the acts and facts the registration of which is required by the law.
Registration in the trade register means legal publication by ONRC: the records, data and registered acts have effect vis-à-vis third parties as from their registration date or publication in the Official Gazette of Romania or on the website/services portal of ONRC under the law.
Registration and notes have effect vis-à-vis third parties as from their entry to the trade register or publication in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part IV or VII, or in another publication, where otherwise provided for by the law.
b) ONRC also publishes the Insolvency Bulletin in electronic format: the section which provides the public service for the service of documents to parties, the communication of judgments, the convocation and notification of procedural acts issued by courts/insolvency administrators/court-appointed liquidators/other authorised persons under the insolvency proceedings in accordance with Law No 85/2014 on insolvency preventing procedures and insolvency proceedings, as subsequently amended and supplemented, and the section “Debtors - natural persons with obligations not arising from the operation of business” (Debitori - persoane fizice cu obligații ce nu decurg din exploatarea unei întreprinderi) in accordance with Law No 151/2015 on insolvency proceedings for natural persons.
For professionals covered by Law No 85/2014 on insolvency preventing procedures and insolvency proceedings, as subsequently amended and supplemented, the procedural acts served/sent by courts, insolvency practitioners (insolvency administrators/court-appointed liquidators), and by other authorised persons under the law are published in the Insolvency Bulletin, a publication available on the online services portal of ONRC.
The judgment ascertaining the debtor’s (professional’s) reorganisation plan, as a procedural acts, under Law No 85/2014 on insolvency preventing procedures and insolvency proceedings, as subsequently amended and supplemented, is published in Part IV of the Official Gazette of Romania.
For natural persons covered by Law No 151/2015 on insolvency proceedings for natural persons, the procedural acts served/delivered by the insolvency board, the procedural administrator, the liquidator and the court authorities are published in the section “Debtors - natural persons with obligations not arising from the operation of a business” of the Insolvency Bulletin, a publication available on the website http://www.bpi.ro/.
III. The Courts Portal
The Courts Portal is administered by the Ministry of Justice. Each court in Romania has a website on this portal. The information on these websites is entered and maintained directly by the court staff, except for the information about cases and meetings, which is automatically taken from the electronic case management system used at court level.
In order to access a website of a particular court from the home page of the Courts Portal, the region to which that court pertains (which is the jurisdictional area of a court of appeal) and then that court from the list are selected.
I. The Official Gazette of Romania
In terms of official announcements, in accordance with Law No 202 of 9 November 1998 on the organisation of the Official Gazette of Romania, as republished:
Note: in accordance with Law No 98/2016 on public procurement, notices are published at national level through the SEAP e-procurement system which is used for the purpose of applying the award procedures through electronic means.
II. The National Trade Register (ONRC)
a) With regard to professionals registered in the Trade Register:
b) For professionals covered by Law No 85/2014 on insolvency prevention procedures and insolvency proceedings, as subsequently amended and supplemented, the following procedural acts issued by courts, insolvency practitioners (the insolvency administrator/court-appointed liquidator) and other authorised persons are published in the Insolvency Bulletin in accordance with the law:
For natural persons covered by Law No 151/2015 on the insolvency proceedings for natural persons, the following procedural acts served/delivered by the insolvency board, the insolvency administrator, the liquidator and the court authorities are published in Section “Debtors – natural persons with obligations not arising from the operation of a business” of the Insolvency Bulletin:
III. The Courts Portal
In accordance with Article 167 of the Coded of Civil Procedure (Law No 134/2010), when the claimant alleges, on a reasoned basis, that, although they had done everything they could, they could not find out the defendant’s domicile or another place where the latter could be served under the law, the court will be able to approve the service of documents with regard to that defendant by publicity. The service by publicity consists in displaying the writ of summons on the court’s door, on the portal of the competent court and at the last known domicile of the person served. Where it deems necessary, the court will order and publish the writ of summons in the Official Gazette of Romania or in a widespread central newspaper.
In this respect, a general section dedicated to service by publicity is operated on the Courts Portal. Also, the website of each court also hosts a section dedicated to service by publicity (see, for example, the website of Bucharest Tribunal).
Depending on the legislation applicable to each type of announcement, the Official Gazette of Romania or the issuing institutions.
With regard to the particular cases presented above: The National Trade Register, the Official Gazette of Romania or the courts.
I. The Official Gazette of Romania
The acts published in Parts III-VII of the Official Gazette of Romania are accessible free of charge on the Internet and available in the reading form for ten days from their publication.
The products in electronic form available online for a consideration (Expert-Monitor and Autentic-monitor), including the charges applied by the “Monitorul Oficial” Autonomous Company, are described on the website thereof.
II. The National Trade Register (ONRC)
a) Yes, the announcements related to professionals registered with the Trade Register on the portal of the National Trade Register.
b) Access to the Insolvency Bulletin, the online publication with published procedural acts of professionals going into insolvency in accordance with Law No 85/2014 on the insolvency preventing procedures and the insolvency proceedings, is granted under a paid subscription.
Access to the section “Debtors – natural persons with obligations not arising from the operation of a business” of the Insolvency Bulletin is granted free of charge to the debtor, the creditors, the insolvency administrator/liquidator, the insolvency board, and the court in the case where they hold such position.
The ONRC online services portal displays a series of free information about the persons published in the Insolvency Bulletin.
III. The Courts Portal
Access to the Courts Portal is free.
I. The Official Gazette of Romania
In the free version of the Official Gazette of Romania (e-Monitor) no automatic searches of published acts can be performed. Thus, users only have the option of selecting, via a calendar, the publication date and number of the Official Gazette (for each Part).
II. The National Trade Register (ONRC)
a) In regard to the professionals registered in the Trade Register, searches may be performed according to one or a maximum combination of the following search criteria:
b) With regard to the debtors under the insolvency proceedings, the searches may be performed in the Section “Insolvency Bulletin (BPI) Online Services” (Servicii online BPI), in the sub-sections “Persons published in BPI” (Persoane publicate in BPI) and “BPI Number Summary” (Sumar număr BPI), by using the following selection criteria:
III. The Courts Portal
Writs of summons may be searched on the Courts Portal by the name (forename and name or just one of these elements) of the summoned party.
If the general section of the Courts Portal is used, the search results will be writs of summons published by all courts, and if a section dedicated to a particular court is used (e.g. the Bucharest Tribunal), the search results will be only writs of summons published by that court.
I. The Official Gazette of Romania
e-Monitor – 2008
II. The National Trade Register (ONRC)
a) With regard to professionals registered in the Trade Register, 2012.
b) The National Trade Register published the first issue of the Insolvency Bulletin in electronic format on 1 August 2006 and it can be viewed on the ONRC online services portal.
III. The Courts Portal
The facility regarding the service of documents by publicity has been available on the Courts Portal since March 2013.
Not applicable
The Courts Portal allows for scheduled access only to sets of data regarding case files and meetings, not to the service of documents by publicity. The information on the latter is available only in HTML format.
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Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic
Banská Bystrica Regional Court
Courts’ official noticeboards are used to publish announcements concerning the scheduling of a court’s activities, public announcements of judgments, notices of service, notices of the service of documents, resolutions of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, notifications concerning final reports, notices announcing the commencement of enforcement, orders cancelling bankruptcy proceedings, notices of appeals lodged, orders accepting articles on deposit, and orders on the reversion of deposits to the state.
Notices are published by all regional and district courts in the justice system.
Yes.
Searches can be made by entering one of the following in the search field on the Official Noticeboard webpage: the title of the document, part of the title or the registration number.
Courts have been able to publish official announcements in electronic format since 2011.
No.
No.
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Kuulutusrekisteri (announcement register)
Virallinen lehti (Official Gazette)
The announcement register is updated with information about announcements based on decisions by courts or authorities concerning:
The Official Gazette publishes the notifications, announcements and other documents that are required to be published in the Official Gazette by an act, decree or other decision issued by a lower court.
The announcement register publishes the notifications of district courts, enforcement agencies and the Finnish Trade Register (PRH).
Announcements notified by district courts to the announcement register:
Announcements notified by enforcement agencies to the announcement register:
Announcements notified by the Finnish Trade Register (PRH) to the announcement register:
In addition to these, the Official Gazette publishes the notifications, announcements and other documents of a number of other organisations.
Announcement register: yes
Official Gazette: PDF copies have been free of charge since 2011. There is a charge for Credita's Virallinen.fi service.
1 user, price/licence: EUR 200/year, 2-5 users, price/licence: EUR 145/year, over 5 users, price/licence: EUR 124/year
Entries in the announcement register can be searched using the following parameters:
In addition to other search criteria, an unrestricted keyword search is available in the paid database of the Official Gazette.
Announcement register: 1 April 2004
Official Gazette: since 2011
Announcement register: no, this is not possible.
Official Gazette: searches can be saved and notifications received via email when using the paid database.
Not available as open data.
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Official announcements are placed for public information into the Edinburgh Gazette, Scotland's regional version of the UK "State Gazette".
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