Impact

eNotary has improved the quality, speed and security of the customer service. The user – a notary or an employee of a notary office – has the possibility to quickly and conveniently obtain information about a particular person or object. In order to obtain the same kind of information earlier, the notary hade to surf on different websites and necessary data (name, address etc.) had to be entered on every single one of them individually. In eNotary, however, authentication is national ID-card based and for search, one-off entry of personal identification code coupled with 6-7 clicks are sufficient to have all the necessary information for preparing a contract.
Is the person making a transaction at the notary really the one he or she claims to be – there is nothing easier than to check it through eNotary. The validity of the client’s passport, passport picture and sample of signature all come directly from the Citizenship and Migration Board and the Population Register and comparing them with the physiognomy of the customer and the document he or she has presented makes the life of forged passport users and other rascals a hell. You are buying immovable, but how can you be sure that the seller is not ill-intentioned and has not just stepped out from another notary office, having already sold the immovable? Fortunately, the notary has eNotary, where he can check, practically in real-time, immediately before the conclusion of the contract for the purchase or sale of the immovable from the Land Register, whether any transactions have been performed with the given immovable or not.
All kinds of cover letters, envelopes and postage stamps have also fallen into oblivion. Thus, eNotary does the job of many postmen as well.
The citizen comes to the notary to register a succession. Instead of keeping him or her running between different state agencies and fetching necessary documents from the Vital Statistics Department, the notary receives the required information from the Population Register through eNotary. Within 30 seconds eNotary also enables to check whether a succession file has already been opened at some other notary and whether the bequeather has made a will or the succession will take place by law. There are no delays of several days in order to make enquiries to the register of wills. Neither is there any waste of notary’s or citizen’s time, but the customer can obtain operative information for his or her further steps.
600 (100% of notaries) users are using E-notary and they make 20000 secure inquiries to GOV registers every day.

Track record of sharing

We have done lot of presentations in different conferences and for different guests all over the world: eJustice, eConveyancing, ...

Lessons learnt

Things that made this project successful:
1. Strong cooperation and communication between stakeholders!
2. Governmentally supported PKI and X-road platform that gave sufficient security
3. Professional and motivated developers.