Did you know that there is a resolution that allows all-digital handouts?!
That's right, the CNJ News Agency released a note on May 14, 2021 in which it informs that electronic documents can be apostiled exclusively in digital media. And to the delight of many, the Certificate of Authenticity will be valid in over 100 signatory countries of the Hague Apostille Convention.
The procedure is provided for in a normative act approved at the 86th Virtual Session of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), which amended Resolution CNJ 228/2016. Until then, even electronically signed documents had to be materialized to receive the seal.
“Most of the public documents produced in Brazil are native-digital, signed electronically. It will be possible to post these digital documents exclusively in digital media, tuning the country to the best practices recommended by the Hague Conference on Private International Law”, explained the national justice inspector, Minister Maria Thereza de Assis Moura, rapporteur of case n. 0003194-03.2021.2.00.0000.
Only public documents or those of a private nature that have been previously recognized by a notary or competent public authority, which have public faith, can be apostiled.
Brazil provides new apostille platform
According to the presentation of the new platform at the 11th International Apostille Forum, we can see that the platform is very intuitive, simpler and fully capable of being replicated by other countries. Called E-apostila, the new Brazilian booklet platform was created by the technology team of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). The platform has a new system for signing and storing documents and handouts. In addition, it will provide its use in other countries, as it was built with a translation engine for several languages. In this way, interested countries will be able to make use of the new system, which will be made available free of charge by the CNJ”, highlighted the president of the CNJ and the Federal Supreme Court (STF), minister Dias Toffoli.
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