A. M. 
The Registro de Comercio is being transformed into a Registro de Personas Jurídicas to integrate, facilitate, and simplify the procedures for community associations. Furthermore, the goal is for the CNR to be the sole institution for registration.
With the aim of regulating the registration of legal entities, business owners, and community associations, the members of the Committee on Salvadorans Abroad, Legislation, and Government issued a ruling in favor of creating the Law of Registry of Legal Entities (RPJ).
The Centro Nacional de Registros (CNR) will be the only institution responsible for safeguarding the registration of the acts of entities created under this legal framework. Currently, the registration of legal entities is fragmented: businesses register with the Registro de Comercio; community associations with municipalities; and foundations or civil associations with the Ministerio de Gobernación.
According to the discussion at the working group meeting, a legal entity is an organization—such as a company, association, or foundation—that possesses its own legal identity, assets, and the capacity to act in and out of court.
Thus, the RPJ would function as a core unit of the CNR, adopting modern technologies such as electronic ledgers, certified electronic signatures, digital resolutions, document digitization, online platforms, and automated systems to offer more agile, secure, and accessible services, including for salvadorans abroad.
The new registry would include registration in the Registro Comercio (for both corporate and individual merchants, as well as businesses) and the Registro de Asociaciones Comunales (RAC), where registration will be mandatory for community associations and Asociaciones de Desarrollo Comunal (ADESCOS).
The law will establish essential registration principles—application, legality, chain of title, priority, and publicity—to strengthen legal certainty. It would regulate the internal organization of the RPJ, the requirements and responsibilities of registrars and accountants, ethical prohibitions, use of forms, types of entries, correction processes, denial and registration publicity.
