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DeploymentProcess & self-service2025-11-12
In two years Spanish notaries authorised more than 12,700 acts by video against 14,690,000 deeds in the electronic register, the General Council of Notaries said
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Event date / reported
2025-11-12
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Explaining and witnessing signatures
Reading or explaining the document to the parties and witnessing them sign, in person or by video where the law allows.
Still human-led✓ Evidence-backed
Keeping registers and records
Keeping the original deeds and registers, issuing copies and passing data to registries and authorities.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
Spain. The notaries' general council says that from November 2023 to November 2025 notaries authorised more than 12,700 acts by videoconference and 14,690,000 electronic notarial protocols, and that the electronic protocols are stored encrypted at the council, accessible only to the notary who holds each one. The profession's own body reporting on itself; it does not state a ratio between the two figures.
What this means
Electronic notarial records are now universal in Spain, while signing by video remains a small fraction of notarial work.
What it does not yet show
Figures reported by the notaries' own council, over two years in one country.
What you can check
Open the General Council of Notaries' release of 12 November 2025 and find "12.700 actos por videoconferencia".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. Nor did this record change a layer: all 2 linked judgements above already rested on earlier evidence. This one adds to them.
Source
Consejo General del Notariado — press release on the second anniversary of the notarial digitalisation law (12 de noviembre, 2025) · verified 2026-10-01 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-01 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.