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of the competent body in the State party has validated the declaration or the application as well
as the supporting documents.
ARTICLE 90-An administrative authority may communicate to the Register of Commerce and
Securities, directly in paper or electronically, information subject to publicity under the
provisions of this uniform Act or anyanotheruniformAct orunder
anyotheravailablelegalprovision notwithstandingthe presenceof personal information.
ARTICLE 91–Keeping the declaration or the application established electronically shall be
done under conditions that preserve sustainability, integrity and legibility.
All information on the declaration or application, once established, such as data for identifying
it, determining its particulars, inter alia,qualified electronic
signatures,andensuretraceability,shall also be retained.
Successive steps justified by the act of saving information, among other things, migrations of
an electronic storage medium to another whose information may be subject, shall not remove
the original value of the electronic records of the statements or applications.
The saving process must allow annotations by the clerk or the competent body in the State party
in charge of inputting subsequent particulars to the registration without altering previous data.
CHAPTER IV: USE OF ELECTRONIC MEANS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF
DOCUMENTS
ARTICLE 92– The Registers of Commerce and Securities, the National and Regional
Registries shall provide a secured internet service allowing the applicant or the declarant, as
they see fit to:
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make any request or declaration;

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send, including by email, a single application or declaration file consisting of electronic
documents and scanned attachments;

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Prepare an application interactively online, including on the web site of the Registerof
Commerce and Securities, and send it the same way.

ARTICLE 93- The clerk or the competent body in the State party overseeing the Register of
Commerce and Securities may respond electronically to any request for information which is
addressed that way. No confirmation on paper is required for both the request and the answer.
ARTICLE94–Exchanges betweentheRegisters of Commerce and Securities, the National and
Regional Registries shall bear the qualified electronic signature of the issuer in order to
guarantee the source andintegrity thereof.

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