Written by Last Updated on December 17, 2024
The company law framework has been further updated to reflect enhanced digitisation processes and legal certainty. Legal Notice 68 of 2024 has been published in the Gazette on 15th March 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the L.N.).
This L.N. amends five (5) subsidiary legislations to the Companies Act, with the aim of ensuring legal certainty when it comes to cross-border operations of limited liability companies, including the electronic transmission of pre-operation certificates and associated communication on the business registers interconnection system.
The digital tools and processes Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1151) is being also fully transposed through the L.N. by ensuring that every registrable document submitted to the Registrar is stored in register of commercial partnerships in a machine-readable and searchable format, or as structured data.
A summary of the provisions contained in the L.N. and other informative points may be found in the User Guidelines being published hereon.
Summary of Proposed Amendments – User Guidelines
Dr Geraldine Spiteri Lucas
Registrar & CEO
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Il-qafas tal-liġi tal-kumpaniji ġie aġġornat aktar biex jirrifletti proċessi mtejba ta’ diġitizzazzjoni u ċertezza legali. L-Avviż Legali 68 tal-2024 ġie ppubblikat fil-Gazzetta fil-15 ta’ Marzu 2024 (minn hawn’il quddiem imsejjaħ “A.L.”).
Dan l-A.L. jemenda ħames (5) leġiżlazzjonijiet sussidjarji taħt l-Att dwar il-Kumpaniji, bl-għan li tiġi żgurata ċ-ċertezza legali f’dak li għandu x’jaqsam mal-operazzjonijiet transkonfinali ta’ kumpaniji b’responsabbiltà limitata, inkluża t-trażmissjoni elettronika ta’ ċertifikati ta’ qabel l-operazzjoni u l-komunikazzjoni assoċjata dwar is-sistema ta’ interkonnessjoni tar-reġistri kummerċjali.
Id-Direttiva dwar l-għodod u l-proċessi diġitali (id-Direttiva (UE) 2019/1151) qed tiġi trasposta bis-sħiħ ukoll permezz tal-A.L. billi jiġi żgurat li kull dokument reġistrabbli ppreżentat lir-Reġistratur jinħażen fir-reġistru tas-soċjetajiet kummerċjali f’format li jinqara mill-magni u li jista’ jitfittex, jew inkella bħala data strutturata.
Sommarju tad-dispożizzjonijiet li jinsabu fl-A.L. u punti informattivi oħra jista’ jinstab fil-Linji Gwida (“User Guidelines”) li qed jiġu ppubblikati.
Sommarju tad-Dispożizzjonijiet – Linji Gwida
Dr Geraldine Spiteri Lucas
Reġistratur u Kap Eżekuttiv