Remote Digital Technologies for Notary Protection of the Rights of Economic Activities Participants

Abstract

The article’s research goal is to identify patterns associated with the implementation of distance digital technologies in notarial activities to increase the efficiency and attractiveness of the extrajudicial form of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and legal entities. It is proved that (1) performing remote and distant notarial actions should increase the efficiency of the notary’s human rights activities; (2) the procedure has economic attractiveness; (3) the alternative procedure for performing notarial actions using digital technologies complements traditional actions, changing the procedure for their implementation; (4) it is necessary to improve the procedure for performing notarial actions in a remote and distant format and expand the competence of the notary, which uses remote digital technologies. It is concluded that the use of distance digital technologies in notarial activities should ensure an operational framework for obtaining notary services without visiting the notary office. Foreign experience in applying such a procedure has proven its effectiveness due to its organizational and economic attractiveness: The parties could seriously save time and receive notary services in the short term without leaving their location. The state’s active position and the notary’s interest in this procedure’s positive result is a guarantee of efficiency. It is necessary to more quickly implement the remote digital procedure for the notarial protection of the rights and interests of economic participants, both among citizens with disabilities and in the business environment, by expanding the use of advanced information and communication technologies for the most popular notarial actions and simplifying the notarial procedure while implementing them and the comprehensive inclusion of notaries in the process of interdepartmental digital interaction of public authorities. It is substantiated that the use of distance digital technologies in notarial activities seriously changes the idea of a notary as a reliable and operational human rights institution that guarantees the confidentiality and legality of the services provided, the results of which have increased legal force in a trial and enjoy the complete confidence of all participants in economic activity.KeywordsNotaryRemote and distant notarial actionsNotarial procedureHuman rights activitiesDigital technologiesElectronic interactionJEL CodesK19O33O52