What is an electronic communication?

The e-NOTUM service offers the possibility of making electronic communications that are not notifications, that is, any type of communication that the administration wishes to make to interested parties, but that, due to administrative procedure, does not require reliable notification.

In these cases, the administration can use the e-NOTUM service to make this type of communications, which have the following characteristics:

  • An electronic communication may be used whenever the administration has to make a communication to an interested party who, due to administrative procedure, does not require a reliable notification.
  • Electronic communication does not have to meet the legal requirements for electronic notification (see the section Regulatory framework for electronic notification)
  • The system accredits the date and time at which the communication is made available to the interested party. Therefore, it can be used in all those communications in which it is necessary to have evidence that it has been communicated to the interested party on a certain day and time, but it is not necessary to have evidence of whether or not the interested party has accessed its content.
  • Access (or non-access) to the content of the communication has no legal effects.

In summary, the electronic communications service is a complement to the electronic notifications service, which allows the same notification mailbox to be used to deposit all types of communications that do not have the electronic notifications category.

When can a communication be made, instead of a notification?

Whenever the administration has to make a communication – which does not legally require it to be made as a notification – and it is necessary to have reliable evidence of the date and time at which it was made available to the interested party . For example, a typical use case is the convening of collegiate bodies.

What legal effects does electronic communication have?

Electronic communication has been designed so that legally it can be reliably demonstrated the date and time at which the communication was made available to the interested party .

I can't define the days of access to a communication. What is the reason?

In the notification creation form, it is necessary to define the days of access to the notification, but in the case of communications, this field has been eliminated.

This is so, given that, in the case of communications, access or not to it within a certain period does not have legal consequences, as in the case of notifications.