Det Centrale Personregister (CPR; kl, Inunnik Qitiusumik Nalunaarsuiffik, en, Civil Registration System) is the

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's nationwide

civil registry Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in differen ...

. Established in 1968, the registry contains the name, address, Danish personal identification number, date and place of birth, citizenship and other information on all the state's citizens and residents. Virtually every government agency in the

receives information about a person from this database. The register came into force by

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with the effect from 1 July 1972. The register is housed by CPR-Kontoret (literally "The CPR Office"), which is responsible for maintaining and developing the database and communicating data to government agencies, as well as to authorised private companies. Anyone living in Denmark including Greenland must register after 3 months (6 months if they are a citizen of a

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country). Every person registered in this database can request a free printout of his or her record. The Danish state also runs

Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister The Danish Central Business Register ''(aka'' CVR — da, Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister, kl, Qitiusumik Suliffeqarfinnik Nalunaarsuiffik) is the central government register containing primary data on all businesses in Denmark (in Greenland ...

(CVR; kl, Qitiusumik Suliffeqarfinnik Nalunaarsuiffik, en, Company Registration System), which is a register over Danish companies, with each company being issued a unique CVR-number.

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CPR-kontoretCPR-kontoret (English)
Government databases in Denmark Society of Denmark {{Denmark-poli-stub

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