The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several

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an countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the fully integrated approach of the

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in the legislation designed to achieve regulations to promote transparent financial markets and to facilitate free movement of

companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...

. The EBR has served as a starting point of the Business Register Interoperability Throughout Europe (BRITE) project which developed an interoperability solution

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for Business Registers to interact across the

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. BRIS makes it possible to obtain comparable, official company information from the countries connected to the network. The EBR is at the moment composed of 26 partners and delivers company information from 25

an countries. Amongst others the European Business registers contains remarks about: *legal name of a company *

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*people representing the company (

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, Board of Directors, holders of

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References

* ''COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION on a simplified business environment for companies in the areas of company law, accounting and auditing'', Brussels, 2007-07-10 (PDF, 192 K

External links

Official website of the European Business Register Network
Online databases Databases in Europe Registrars of companies

See also

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