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On May 22, 2024, the Federal Cabinet passed a draft law on the creation of public documents in electronic form. Bavaria's Minister of Justice Georg Eisenreich: "I welcome the fact that the federal government is taking up our proposal to amend the law on notarization and is thus making a long overdue contribution to the digitization of the justice system." At the beginning of his term of office in 2018, the Bavarian State Minister of Justice Georg Eisenreich launched the Bavarian judiciary's digital offensive: "However, the digitization of the justice system also requires the modernization of federal laws. The existing legal framework is still far too often a hindrance and needs to be modernized by the federal government in many places. Bavaria has introduced several legal policy initiatives via the Federal Council and the Conference of Justice Ministers. The federal government is called upon to tackle further important reforms, particularly in the area of ??civil proceedings of the future."
The minister said : "Until now, public documents from courts and notaries have required a handwritten signature on paper. Since last year, all Bavarian courts have been working entirely with electronic files in civil, family and, more recently, real estate enforcement and care matters. The probate courts are to follow suit shortly. This often results in media disruptions: documents created digitally but signed on paper have to be laboriously scanned before further processing. This is no longer up to date, delays proceedings and ties up judicial capacity."
Bavaria, together with other states, has been a strong advocate for modernizing notarization law. Eisenreich: "Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and other states have been committed to expanding the electronic options for courts and notaries." In the future, notarizations can be signed using electronic tools - on a signature pad or via touchscreen. The document created in this way can be further processed digitally immediately.
