3 The gradual introduction of electronic procedures
As indicated in 1.1 the fundamental organizational change in 1992 led to an electronic register domiciled in Bergen, however with registrations still based upon paper documents. At that time the International Ship Register, established in Bergen in 1987, had an electronic register – with registration based on paper documents. In 2019 the possibility of sending certain documents electronically was introduced in both registers.(1) Regulation 2201/2018 amending Regulation 593/1992 Section 4 (“The register can be established electronically”) and also Section 25 (“documents submitted electronically“).
Registration of mortgages e.g. had still to be paper based – in contrast to the Register of Deeds that had (as said in 1.2) electronic registration as the main rule.(2) See Act 45/2014 where the results of a limited test with electronic registration, were so encouraging that electronic registration became the principal method. The NOR and NIS were sagging behind! This was corrected by the act of 2023.