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Understand the system before you use it
Five pages that explain electronic notarization from the ground up. Start at the top if this is new to you.
- Glossary: every e-notarization term, in plain languageENP, ENF, ENA, IEN, REN, jurat, acknowledgment — 25 terms explained in one line each, English and Filipino.
- How we got here: 2004 to todayFrom the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice, through the 2020 pandemic interim rules, to the 2025 Rules on Electronic Notarization and the staged rollout since.
- IEN vs REN: which mode fits your situationIn-person electronic notarization and remote electronic notarization are both real notarization. The difference is only whether you travel — and one of them has a location rule that matters enormously.
- The Rules on Electronic Notarization, explainedA plain-English companion to A.M. No. 24-10-14-SC — what it covers, who it creates, and what it deliberately leaves out.
- What is electronic notarization in the Philippines?The Supreme Court's Rules on Electronic Notarization let a Philippine lawyer with a special commission notarize a PDF — either with you standing in front of them, or over live video. Here is what that actually means for you.