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Dec 19 - Companies House Reduces Carbon Footprint

19 December 2018

Companies House Gibraltar says it has gone a "step further" towards reducing its carbon footprint.

Companies House Gibraltar (CHG) have introduced the possibility of filing documents electronically via the CHG e-Registry; stopped sending printed statements to clients and replaced these by electronic statements sent by email and replaced conventional petrol-engine delivery vehicle with a eco-friendly electric vehicle. 

CHG will no longer be issuing printed receipts to users who hold a CHG deposit account.

Instead, all deposit account users will receive their receipts electronically via email.

Authorised signatories of CHG deposit accounts will no longer be required to sign a printed receipt to authorise their transaction, but will sign on an iPad instead.

CHG issued 21,000 receipts for the year 2017 (42 reams of A4 paper).

A spokesperson said: "Company profiles are widely used by local professionals. In order to improve the clarity and legibility of our company profiles, some headings will be bigger and bolder and a coloured pie chart will be included showing the proportion of the issued share capital held by each of its shareholders.

"CHG is introducing the certification of documents lodged with us by electronic means. Users will be able to obtain company profiles and document copies via the CHG e-Registry certified and authenticated; e-Certified documents will be available from us without delay.

"Two years ago e-Registry electronic searches were introduced for all active Gibraltar companies since 1931. The loading time of these records was dependent on the number of documents contained in the record. As from the end of January 2019 loading times to be able to access these documents will be greatly improved. They will be available for consultation by the user for a period of 30 days as from the date of purchase.

"The e-Registry service will include business names as from the end of January 2019; over 12,500 existing documents related to Business names will be made available for download from the e-Registry and users will be able to conduct electronic searches of active Business Names since 1945. The electronic file will remain available for a period of 30 days from the date of purchase.

"Companies House Gibraltar is currently engaging in the exciting field of blockchain and distributed ledger technology in order to be able to provide its registry users with blockchain related services in the foreseeable future. Watch this space."

 

 



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