Argentina (AR) — civil law.

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Acordada 15/2025 — Reglamento de Subastas Electrónicas Judiciales

The single most consequential recent change to Argentine judicial auction practice.

FieldValue
InstrumentAcordada 15/2025, Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación
PublishedBoletín Oficial, 14 July 2025
Compulsory from1 October 2025
BindsAll national and federal courts seated in the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Portalsubastaselectronicasjudiciales.csjn.gov.ar

Scope limit — read this before applying it anywhere.

Acordada 15/25 binds national and federal courts seated in CABA. It does not bind provincial courts. A subasta ordered by a provincial civil court in Córdoba or Mendoza follows that province’s own rules and its own portal. Assuming national reach is the most likely error a reader will make with this page.

What the reglamento does

  • The auction act is electronic. The subasta begins automatically when the link is enabled at the appointed day and hour, and admitted postores bid through the portal.
  • No physical attendance. Bidders are relieved of appearing in person, which opens participation to anyone in the country rather than whoever can reach the courtroom.
  • Bidder anonymity. Bids are anonymised through an automatic data-crossing mechanism to which only the intervening judicial authority has access. Bidders therefore cannot see who they are bidding against.
  • Public visibility. Listings are published openly and the auction can be followed in real time, which is the transparency rationale the Court gave for the reform.

Why anonymity is the point

Argentina’s in-person remate had a long-standing problem with ligas de compradores — informal pools that suppressed bidding at the public act. Anonymised electronic bidding attacks that directly: a pool cannot enforce discipline over members it cannot identify, and cannot verify that a co-conspirator actually withheld a bid.

Uptake

In the first three months of operation the system processed 301 auctions across 186 cases. A CSJN communication in June 2026 described the model as consolidated.

Relationship to the provincial portals

Buenos Aires Province got there first: the SCBA has run `subastas.scba.gov.ar` since 2014, made compulsory department by department from 1 October 2015. Córdoba runs `subastas.justiciacordoba.gob.ar`. The national portal is therefore a late arrival to an already-established provincial practice, not the origin of electronic auctions in Argentina.

What it does not change

The reglamento governs how the auction act happens. It does not change the base, the seña, the comisión, what debts survive the sale, the auto de aprobación, or the remanente waterfall. Those remain matters of the CPCCN and substantive law.


Sources: Acordada 15/2025 (CSJN), Boletín Oficial 14 July 2025; CSJN subastas-judiciales portal pages. Provincial application: needs_verification province by province — see each jurisdicción page.