Public Registry of Commerce Creates Permanent Legal Service 

The Public Registry of Commerce of the City of Buenos Aires (IGJ) published Resolution 2/2025 in the Official Gazette on January 9, 2025, creating the Permanent Legal Service within its scope.

The role of the Permanent Legal Service—which reports directly to the General Inspector of the IGJ—is to intervene in those cases in which the administrative act carried out before the IGJ may affect subjective rights and legitimate interests. The process involves issuing a legal opinion before the General Inspector issues their decisions.

The Resolution establishes that the purpose of this new service is to reinforce the prior legal control that any act of the Public Administration must have, as well as to protect the right to defense of the persons administered and the effective judicial protection of their rights, as the petitions of the persons administered will be examined by the corresponding agencies for this purpose.

The Permanent Legal Service will be headed by a professional with a law degree, with a seniority of more than five years, who will be appointed in due course. However, the incumbent and alternate officers who will carry out this task are appointed on a transitory and supplementary basis.

It will be interesting to closely follow the criteria the IGJ will adopt within the framework of the practical implementation of the Permanent Legal Service, which intends to strengthen adequate legal control over its administrative acts but without interfering with the autonomy of the will of the administrated persons within who submit to its jurisdiction.