La función notarial en el servicio consular.

Abstract

The consular service is a public service that must be granted by the consuls and other diplomatic officials, who must also act as notaries. This service must be subject to what is established by the constitutional and legal norms, Ecuadorian and international treaties and agreements. The Notarial Function thatis also deposited in the consuls, constitutes a public service, whose parameters, faculties and scope are perfectly defined in the Ecuadorian laws. Ecuadorians in mobility or those foreigners who occupy these consular services, related to notarial acts, must be treated under the same possibilities, conditions and legal parameters, which the notarialservice provides for all persons residing in the country. However, in practice, the Ecuadorian consuls perform a limited number of notary acts, which restrict the notarial service to the detriment of the interests of users abroad. This study raises the reasons why this notary service in Ecuadorian consulates is limited, the repercussions on the rights of Ecuadorians in mobility and the solutions that could be implemented in order to obtain a consular service with efficiency and quality.