It goes without saying that the notary’s plate must be truthful. That is, in the case of a secondary office, it must contain the specific mention “secondary office” and the reference to the notary’s office.
As regards the possibility of using references, even on mobile chinese overseas asia phone number data devices , which contain a reference to the notary's registered office or secondary office or a generic reference to Internet sites, it must be considered that the set of rules governing informative advertising – which has the aim not of allowing the notary to acquire clients through normal means of commercial advertising, but of allowing the client to make a considered and rational choice of the notary to whom to entrust the performance of his function – imposes a minimum necessary content in the information to the public regarding the activity, also in consideration of the transparency obligations imposed by the Services Directive ( Directive 2006/123/EC ).
In this context, the notary is not allowed to communicate the location of his office by means of mobile means ( motor vehicles, aerial banners ), for the same reasons for which no other license plate other than the notarial one required by law is allowed. In fact, this would not be useful information for users, but a pure solicitation of customers without informative content. Not to mention the aspects related to the violation of the decorum and prestige of the notarial class.
Even using an active reference to the public that places a specific city, area or region alongside the function (“notary” or “notaries”) is ambiguous, because it inevitably refers to all the notaries in the city and not to a specific notarial office or association. Such wording can in fact determine in the public a false expectation that the association concerns all the notaries in the city or the best, when in reality they refer only to some of those registered on the roll.
Sponsorships
All sponsorships, including those in sports, culture and charity , are against the rules on informative advertising .
to allow the public to acquire all those elements that allow for a considered and rational choice of the notary in the exercise of his function.
Sponsorship must be functional to the object, and therefore must concern elements that refer to the professional activity, the specializations, the qualifications held pertaining to the profession, the structure of the professional firm and the fees requested.
Finally, pursuant to Article 147 of the Notarial Law, it is necessary to preserve the decorum and prestige of the notarial class, avoiding any form of communication that has potential negative effects on the common perception of the figure of the notary.
