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Consumer protection in the digital environment and company mobility
Brussels, 3 October 2017
Notaries of Europe gather in Spain to improve consumer protection in the digital environment and company mobility
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From 5 to 7 October, notaries from 22 EU countries will gather in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela for the Congress organised by the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) on “EU Law at the Service of Citizens”. The current President of the CNUE, which represents more than 40,000 notaries in Europe, is a Spanish notary, Mr José Manuel García Collantes.
The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday 5 October at 11.30.
More than 600 notaries will attend this fourth Congress, along with senior officials of the European and Spanish institutions, representatives of consumer and business organisations and other legal practitioners. During several roundtables, they will discuss and present proposals to the European authorities on two topics: protecting citizens and consumers in the digital environment and transferring company seat in the European Union.
CNUE in brief
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The Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) is an official body representing the notarial profession in dealings with the European institutions. Speaking for the profession, it expresses the joint decisions of its members to the institutions of the European Union. The CNUE includes 22 notarial organisations in the European Union, representing over 40,000 notaries and 200,000 staff.
The European notariats are represented in the CNUE by the presidents of the national notariats. The CNUE operates under the authority of a President, the CNUE’s spokesperson, who has tenure for one year.
