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The Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) approves Terravis as the first digital delivery platform for electronic transactions with the cantonal land registries. The FDJP thus attests that Terravis completely fulfils the technical requirements, including requirements regarding information and access security and availability. This approval represents an important milestone in the history of Terravis.
In September 2009, the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) and SIX concluded an agreement regarding their cooperation in the eGRIS project (electronic land registry information system). After that, “Terravis" was developed and expanded together with the cantons and was placed under the auspices of the SIX Terravis AG operating company, which is managed by SIX.
Terravis facilitates electronic transactions between institutional users (banks, insurance companies, pension funds and surveyors), notaries and authorities (land and commercial registries). The platform enables users to process mortgage, land and commercial registry transactions through one single interface. Unlike manual, and rather inefficient settlement processes, data is delivered through Terravis in a secure, standardized and seamless manner. Terravis relieves public administrations as well as businesses of administrative work by accelerating the related processes and reducing sources of error.
At present, access to land registry data is ensured in the following 11 cantons: Aargau, Baselland, Berne, Glarus, Graubünden, Schwyz, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri und Valais. Other cantons are continuously being added.
Terravis is the first delivery platform to fulfil the requirements for electronic transactions executed between the land registries and to have received approval. Terravis thus meets the core requirements set by the Federal government for information security (data integrity, data protection, data security) as well as the specifications regarding, among other things, the network, communication security, management of operating processes and the availability of the platform.
