The objective of this paper is to sharethe experiences and good practices of early businessregistry reformers who implemented web-enabled and automatedelectronic business registries (e-BRs). These lessons arehoped to be of help to EU New Member countries as theyembark on delivering EU-conformant e-BRs. At the same time,policymakers in other developing countries may also findthese lessons of use. This paper cites examples of goodpractices rather than best practices. As elsewhere in thedevelopment agenda, solutions that have worked well in somecountries may not work in other local circumstances. In thecase of e-BRs, success depends on a broader set of reforms;as will be discussed in a subsequent chapter, e-BRs requirea supportive legal and regulatory infrastructure, such aselectronic signature laws and document authentication. Aneeds assessment and analysis of the options in the localcountry context need to be conducted in order to find themost relevant best practice options for a specific country.Nevertheless, a number of practical good practices can beidentified and are presented in this paper for consideration.