Skip to main content
Beauchamps Close
Back

  • B-Connect
  • About us
    • About Beauchamps
    • Client service
    • Core values
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • History
    • Knowledge management
    • Partnerships
  • Our People
  • Our services

    Practice Areas

    • Banking & Finance
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • EU, Competition & Procurement
    • Construction
    • Corporate & Commercial
    • Corporate Governance & Company Compliance
    • Employment & Benefits
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Inward Investment
    • Technology & Intellectual Property
    • Litigation & Dispute Resolution
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Planning & Environmental
    • Private Client & Family Law
    • Insurance & Professional Indemnity
    • Public & Regulatory
    • Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring
    • Medical Negligence and Personal Injury*

    Sectors

    • Charities & Not For Profit
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Financial Services
    • Healthcare
    • Real Estate
    • Retail
    • Sport
    • Technology & Communications
    • Brexit
    • Food & Agri
    • Housing
    • Family Business
    View All Services
  • What's new
    • Beauchamps - proud sponsor of and official legal adviser to Leinster Rugby
    • Brexit Update
    • Doing business in Ireland
    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • The Companies Act 2014
    • Covid-19 Updates
  • Careers
    • Why join Beauchamps?
    • Current opportunities
    • Lawyers
    • Business services
    • Intern & trainee programmes
Contact Search
Search Menu
Beauchamps
Search Menu
What's new

Companies Registration Office (CRO) – New Digital Filing System

26 Feb 2021

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. What's new
  3. Publication

Share

The CRO launched its new digital filing system on 16 December 2020.

While the timing of the launch was somewhat questionable, coming at a particularly busy time of the year for CRO filings, and practitioners had to initially struggle with an unfortunate number of bugs in the new system, there is no doubt that this new system will add significant efficiency to the completion of CRO filings for companies and practitioners alike.

Amongst the key innovations in the new system are:

  • The acceptance of scanned copies of signature pages for the majority of the most commonly filed documents and ability for signatories to complete the uploading of signature pages directly. This will eliminate the delivery of thousands of hard copy signature pages to the CRO on an annual basis with corresponding reductions in administrative time for companies and practitioners, not to mention the positive environmental impact.
  • A significant increase in the number of forms which can now be filed online.
  • A single 56-day filing period for annual returns and financial statements, which replaces the previous staggered approach of separate 28-day periods for each of the annual return and financial statements.
  • A facility for companies to pay filing fees and penalties directly to the CRO, thus eliminating timing issues previously connected with managing payment through intermediaries and advisors.

About the author

Damian Maloney

Partner
Damian is a partner in the firm’s corporate & commercial group. Damian has extensive experience across areas of corporate, commercial and company law, including cross-border group reorganisations, international companies establishing operations in or business with Ireland, commercial contracts and corporate governance and compliance.
Beauchamps

Related Services

Practice Areas

    Corporate & Commercial
Beauchamps

Our Location

Riverside Two

Sir John Rogerson's Quay

Dublin 2, D02 KV60

Ireland, DX No. 63

General Enquiries

T: +353 (0) 1 418 0600

F: + 353 (0) 1 418 0699

E: info@beauchamps.ie

  • Cookie Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Accessibility
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
  • Privacy
© 2023 Beauchamps LLP