This is a list of official business registers around the world.
There are many types of official
business registers, usually maintained for various purposes by a state authority, such as a government agency, or a
court of law
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordanc ...
. In some cases, it may also be devolved to
self-governing
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Self-governance, self-government, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority. It may refer to personal conduct or to any form of ...
bodies, either commercial (a
chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to ad ...
) or professional (a
regulatory college
Regulatory colleges are legal entities in Canada charged with serving the public interest by regulating the practice of a profession. They function as professional associations that are state-sanctioned to regulate the practice of their profession ...
); or to a dedicated, highly regulated company (i.e., operator of a
stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for th ...
, a
multilateral trading facility
A multilateral trading facility (MTF) is a European Union regulatory term for a self-regulated financial trading venue. These are alternatives to the traditional stock exchanges where a market is made in securities, typically using electronic s ...
, a
central securities depository A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial organization holding securities like shares, either in certificated or uncertificated ( dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather t ...
or an
alternative trading system
Alternative trading system (ATS) is a US and Canadian regulatory term for a non-exchange trading venue that matches buyers and sellers to find counterparties for transactions. Alternative trading systems are typically regulated as broker-dealers r ...
).
The following is an incomplete list of official business registers by country.
Types of registers
A business register may include data on entities, as well as on their status for various purposes. Examples of such registers include:
*
company register
A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under.
A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, accounta ...
— a register of legal entities in the jurisdiction they operate under, for the purpose of establishing,
dissolving,
acquisition of legal capacity and (in some cases) juridical personality, determination of legal representation, protection, accountability, and control of legal entities.
* list of undertakings cleared for access to classified information — register of companies authorized to work on contracts involving dealing with sensitive information documents of a government or an international otganisation, usually maintained by a counter-intelligence service.
*
statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register ...
— plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a
national statistics office
The following is a list of national and international statistical services.
Central national statistical services
Nearly every country in the world has set a central public sector unit entirely devoted to the production, harmonisation and dissemin ...
.
Another group of business registers is focused on various
asset
In financial accountancy, financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value ...
s or
liabilities of an entity, rather than on entities themselves, these include:
*
public contract register — a repository that aims at keeping track of all procurements, usually awarded through a
tender, concluded by the public institutions, making this information available online, thereby providing a basis for monitoring the way in which public money is spent.
*
public aid
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifical ...
register — an official register of businesses in difficulties which received aid from the state.
*
ultimate beneficial owner
In domestic and international commercial law, a beneficial owner is a natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls an interest in a legal entity or arrangement, such as a company, a trust, or a foundation. Legal owners (i.e. the own ...
register — an official repository of natural person or persons who ultimately own or control a company, maintained to counteract
money laundering
Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions ...
and
terrorist financing
Terrorism financing is the provision of funds or providing financial support to individual terrorists or non-state actors.
Most countries have implemented measures to counter terrorism financing (CTF) often as part of their money laundering l ...
.
*
land and mortgage register — concerns titles, rights, and liabilities (such as real estate
lien
A lien ( or ) is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation. The owner of the property, who grants the lien, is referred to as the ''lienee'' and the pers ...
s or
pledges) related to
real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...
, consisting of premises specified in a cadaster, such as land, buildings, or condominium units,
*
cadaster
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
— determines the
geospatial
Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position).
It is also call ...
localization
Localization or localisation may refer to:
Biology
* Localization of function, locating psychological functions in the brain or nervous system; see Linguistic intelligence
* Localization of sensation, ability to tell what part of the body is a ...
, the extent, and (in some cases) the value of premises, including
land parcels, buildings, and
condominium
A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership structure whereby a building is divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned. The term can be applied to the building or complex ...
units, which together form real estate, subject to rights and liabilities registered in a land and mortgage register,
*
vehicle register The Vehicle register in the United Kingdom is a database of motor vehicles. It is a legal requirement in the UK for most types of motor vehicle to be registered if they are to be used on the public road.
All new and imported vehicles are required ...
(such as those
for motor vehicles,
rolling stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can b ...
,
boat or ships, or
aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines ...
) — includes entries containing data on
vehicle identification number
A vehicle identification number (VIN) (also called a chassis number or frame number) is a unique code, including a serial number, used by the automotive industry to identify individual motor vehicles, towed vehicles, motorcycles, scooters ...
,
vehicle registration plate
A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate (American English), or licence plate ( Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identificati ...
number,
vehicle title
In the United States, the certificate of title for a vehicle (also known as a car title, automobile title, or pink slip) is a legal form, establishing a person or business as the legal owner of a vehicle. Vehicle titles in the U.S. are commonly is ...
,
type approval
Type approval or certificate of conformity is granted to a product that meets a minimum set of regulatory, technical and safety requirements. Generally, type approval is required before a product is allowed to be sold in a particular country, so ...
,
vehicle inspection
Vehicle inspection is a procedure mandated by national or subnational governments in many countries, in which a vehicle is inspected to ensure that it conforms to regulations governing safety, emissions, or both. Inspection can be required at va ...
s,
liability insurance
Liability insurance (also called third-party insurance) is a part of the general insurance system of risk financing to protect the purchaser (the "insured") from the risks of liabilities imposed by lawsuits and similar claims and protects the i ...
, as well as vehicle
lien
A lien ( or ) is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation. The owner of the property, who grants the lien, is referred to as the ''lienee'' and the pers ...
s, such as
maritime lien
The maritime lien is one of three ''in rem'' claims capable of being brought under UK Admiralty Law. Whilst being a common law instrument, it has been codified under s.21(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 along with s.21(2) and s.21(4), its statut ...
s, and which sometimes may be connected to a register of pledges or
tax lien
A tax lien is a lien which is imposed upon a property by law in order to secure the payment of taxes. A tax lien may be imposed for the purpose of collecting delinquent taxes which are owed on real property or personal property, or it may be ...
s.
* register of
pledges — includes entries concerning liabilities (pledges and voluntary specific liens) of a pledgor to a creditor, secured by tying them to a pledgor's
collateral
Collateral may refer to:
Business and finance
* Collateral (finance), a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan
* Marketing collateral, in marketing and sales
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Collate ...
, such as a movable, a
security
Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...
, or an
intellectual property right
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...
.
*
industrial property
Industrial property is one of two subsets of intellectual property (the other being copyright), it takes a range of forms, including patents for inventions, industrial designs (aesthetic creations related to the appearance of industrial product ...
register — an official database containing registered
trade mark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from others. ...
s, as well as
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
ed
invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...
s,
industrial design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...
s,
utility model
A utility model is a patent-like intellectual property right to protect inventions. This type of right is available in many countries but, notably, not in the United States, United Kingdom or Canada. Although a utility model is similar to a patent ...
s, or
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...
s, thus protecting and reserving the rights of the company which developed them or bought rights to them.
*
plant breeders’ rights
Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are rights granted to the breeder of a new variety of plant that give the breeder exclusive control over the propagating material (including seed, cuttings, divisions, tissue ...
register — registers rights to a
protected plant
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and invas ...
variety, developed and registered by a
plant breeder
Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce cro ...
.
Some types of business registers combine the features of both groups, these include:
* tax register — a register used for the purpose of revenue collection, including taxes,
duties
A duty (from "due" meaning "that which is owing"; fro, deu, did, past participle of ''devoir''; la, debere, debitum, whence "debt") is a commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise. A duty may ...
such as
tariffs
A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and polic ...
or
excise
file:Lincoln Beer Stamp 1871.JPG, upright=1.2, 1871 U.S. Revenue stamp for 1/6 barrel of beer. Brewers would receive the stamp sheets, cut them into individual stamps, cancel them, and paste them over the Bunghole, bung of the beer barrel so when ...
, as well as mandatory
social insurance
Social insurance is a form of Social protection, social welfare that provides insurance against economic risks. The insurance may be provided publicly or through the subsidizing of private insurance. In contrast to other forms of Welfare, soci ...
and
health insurance
Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses. As with other types of insurance, risk is shared among ma ...
contributions; such a register includes all taxable entities, as well as their tax liabilities, including
tax lien
A tax lien is a lien which is imposed upon a property by law in order to secure the payment of taxes. A tax lien may be imposed for the purpose of collecting delinquent taxes which are owed on real property or personal property, or it may be ...
s.
*
public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (l ...
and
securities
A security is a tradable financial asset. The term commonly refers to any form of financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction. In some countries and languages people commonly use the term "security" to refer to any for ...
register — the official repository of
publicly-listed or
unlisted companies whose at least one emission of securities was offered for the purpose of
free trading to a number of persons exceeding certain threshold (varying according to jurisdiction), thus placing such a company under specific regulatory obligations, mainly concerning mandatory publication of information on the terms and rights attached to the offered security, as well as information on the company itself and its finances.
* list of companies and their securities publicly traded on a stock market — maintained by a
stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for th ...
or an
alternative trading system
Alternative trading system (ATS) is a US and Canadian regulatory term for a non-exchange trading venue that matches buyers and sellers to find counterparties for transactions. Alternative trading systems are typically regulated as broker-dealers r ...
for the purpose of
trading
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.
An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
and
quoting companies’ stocks.
* insolvency register — contains information on companies who entered
insolvency
In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company ( debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be ''insolvent''. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet i ...
,
bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor ...
,
liquidation
Liquidation is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end in Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and many other countries. The assets and property of the company are redistrib ...
,
administration
Administration may refer to:
Management of organizations
* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...
,
receivership
In law, receivership is a situation in which an institution or enterprise is held by a receiver—a person "placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights"—especially in ca ...
,
debt restructuring
Debt restructuring is a process that allows a private or public company or a sovereign entity facing cash flow problems and financial distress to reduce and renegotiate its delinquent debts to improve or restore liquidity so that it can continue ...
, or have been under futile execution, either of an administrative debt (by a government agency) or of a
private debt
In economics, consumer debt is the amount owed by consumers (as opposed to amounts owed by businesses or governments). It includes debts incurred on purchase of goods that are consumable and/or do not appreciate. In macroeconomic terms, it is ...
(by a bailiff), for longer than an amount of time specified by law, as well as on their liabilities.
* register or a list of a specified type of
regulated entities or activities — contains entries on companies officially authorized to perform a specified type of business, where prior obtaining of a permit, a license, a concession, or registration on such a list or register is a prerequisite required by law. Depending on situation, regulation may apply to an entity type, or to a type of entity's activity.__NOTOC__
European Union and the European Economic Area
*
company register
A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under.
A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, accounta ...
s
**
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
- the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS) (uses data from national registers operated by the member states) (searchable); List of
European Research Infrastructure Consortia (online web list)
**
European Committee of the Regions
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the European Union's (EU) assembly of local and regional representatives that provides sub-national authorities (i.e. regions, counties, provinces, municipalities and cities) with a direct voice w ...
- Register of
European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (uses data from national lists operated by the member states) (available unrestricted as a search engine and a GIS/cadaster)
** the
- Register of
European political parties and
European political foundation
A European political foundation, formally a political foundation at European level, informally a Eurofoundation, is a Think tank, research and advocacy organization close to, but independent from a Europarty. They are funded by the European Parl ...
s (EU only) (online web lists)
* tax registers (
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
)
**
VAT Information Exchange System The VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) is an electronic means of transmitting information relating to VAT registration (i.e., validity of VAT numbers) of companies registered in the European Union. EU law requires that, where goods or services ...
(uses data from national registers operated by the member states) - taxpayers who obtained registration allowing to perform intra-community supply transactions; not mandatory for VAT-exempt entities involved in intra-commumity supply transactions of low worth in the given year, unless they do not perform services by delegating their employees to another EU country (online VAT number check)
** System of Exchange of Excise Data (SEED) (uses data from national lists operated by the member states) -
(SEED number check)
** Registered Exporter System (REX) (central register with input operated by the member states)
(REX number check)
** Economic Operator Identification and Registration System (EORI) (central register with input operated by the member states) –
(EORI number check)
** Economic Operator Systems Authorized Economic Operator (central register with input operated by the member states) – Authorized Economic Operator Database
(searchable)
*vehicle registers
** EU Fleet Register (EU only, uses data from national lists operated by the member states) - registry of maritime commercial vessels used in
fisheries
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a. fishing ground). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms, both ...
within the
Common Fisheries Policy (searchable)
**
EUCARIS EUCARIS (short for European Car and Driving License Information System) is an information exchange system that provides an infrastructure and software to countries to share, among others, their car- and driving licence-registration information, hel ...
(European Car and Driving License Information System)
Austria
* ''
Wiener Zeitung
''Wiener Zeitung'' is an Austrian newspaper. It is one of the oldest, still published newspapers in the world. It is the official publication used by the Government of the Republic of Austria for legally-required announcements, such as company r ...
'' ' — the
official gazette
A government gazette (also known as an official gazette, official journal, official newspaper, official monitor or official bulletin) is a periodical publication that has been authorised to publish public or legal notices. It is usually establis ...
. (languages: German only)
* ''Firmenbuch'' — the searchable database. (languages: German only)
*
Financial Market Authority (FMA) — has searchable database for companies that hold FMA-issued licenses. (languages: German only)
Belgium
* KBO Public Search — searchable database for public information on every registered active enterprise and establishment in Belgium. (languages: Dutch, French)
* Central Balance Sheet Office (
National Bank of Belgium
The National Bank of Belgium (NBB; nl, Nationale Bank van België, french: Banque nationale de Belgique, german: Belgische Nationalbank) has been the central bank of Belgium since 1850. The National Bank of Belgium was established with 100% pr ...
) — has the accounts of companies, associations, and foundations active in Belgium. (languages: Dutch, French, German, English)
* Crossroads Bank for Enterprises
* Enterprise Search — maintained by the
Federal Public Service Justice
The FPS Justice ( nl, FOD Justitie, french: SPF Justice, german: FÖD Justiz), formerly the Ministry of Justice, is a federal public service of Belgium. It was created by royal order on May 23, 2001, as part of the plans of the Verhofstadt I Govern ...
(languages: French only)
* Public companies register (''STORI'') — maintained by the
Financial Services and Markets Authority
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) ( nl, Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten, french: L'Autorité des services et marchés financiers) is the financial regulatory agency in Belgium.
As a supervisory authority, the F ...
Bulgaria
* Trade Register — electronic register. Companies must be entered into the commercial register that is kept with the relevant district court, where they can be viewed by the public. (languages:
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
only)
*D&B Report Guide Bulgaria — information on the different types of companies
* Trade Register (Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Croatia
*Biznet — provides information and statistics on the Croatian economy, and access to the Register of Business Entities. It is maintained by the
Croatian Chamber of Commerce
Croatian Chamber of Economy ( hr, Hrvatska gospodarska komora, abbreviation HGK), is a professional association of businesspeople in Croatia, and the oldest institution of its kind on the Croatian territory.
History
It originates from the Chamber ...
Biznet. (languages:
Croatian and English)
*D&B Report Guide Croatia — provides information on legal forms and filing requirements.
*Croatian Company Directory
* Business Register — maintained by the
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
. (languages: Croatian only)
* Export Directory — maintained by the
Chamber of Economy. (languages: Croatian only)
Cyprus
* Department of the Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver — responsible for keeping the Register of Companies, Partnerships, Business Names, Trade Marks, Patents and Industrial Designs, as well as for administering properties of insolvent legal and natural persons.
*Cyprus-Data.com — searchable database for companies in Cyprus
Czech Republic
* Public register and the collection of documents — maintained by the
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
. (language:
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
)
*Register of economic entities — maintained by the
Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
*Trade Licensing Register — maintained by the
Ministry of Industry and Trade. (Czech version has additional detail.)
Denmark
* Danish Commerce and Companies Agency — the official registry for Danish businesses.
*
Central Business Register — searchable database for Danish businesses.
* Database (
Financial Supervisory Authority) — database for enterprises under supervision of the Financial Supervisory Authority.
Estonia
* Central Commercial Register () — an online service based on the central database of Estonian registration departments of the courts.
*Database of the Financial Supervision Authority () — searchable database of supervised entities. (languages: Estonian, English)
Finland
*
Finnish Trade Register
The ''Finnish Trade Register'' ( fi, Kaupparekisteri, sv, Handelsregistret) is a company register in Finland. It provides official information on businesses in the whole country, including data from current and old register entries, articles of as ...
— official company register for Finnish companies, maintained by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office. (languages:
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
, English,
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
)
*BIS Search — trade register of 470,000 Finnish companies via the Business Information System of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
* : Åland Online — companies, organizations and associations
France
* Trade and Companies Register () — official register of over 3,200,000 French companies, maintained by the
Commercial Court. (languages: French)
*''Sirene'' —
statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register ...
maintained by
INSEE. (languages: French only)
* Bulletin of Obligatory Legal Announcements — maintained by
Journal officiel de la République française
A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to:
*Bullet journal, a method of personal organization
*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
*Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
. (languages: French only)
* Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements (''Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales'', ''BODACC'') — publishes companies registered in the RCS (''registre du commerce et des sociétés''). (languages: French only)
*: Paris Registry — maintained by the Clerk of the Commercial Court of Paris (''Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Paris'')
Germany
*
German Commercial Register The German Commercial Register (german: Handelsregister) is a public company register that contains details of all tradespeople and legal entities in the district of the registrar, which is generally the Amtsgericht (local district court) of the pla ...
— judicial register of the
federal states
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governi ...
. (languages: German only)
*
Business Register System Business Register System (, abbreviated URS) is a statistical business register in Germany which provides structural data about economic sectors and serves as the essential source of information about entities which is needed for planning, preparati ...
() — centralized
statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register ...
. (languages: German, English, French,
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, and
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
)
*
Bundesanzeiger
The ''Bundesanzeiger'' is an official publication of the Federal Republic of Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, ...
— official
gazette
A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper.
In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name ''Gazette'' since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers ...
*
Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (german: Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) better known by its abbreviation BaFin is the financial regulatory authority for Germany. It ...
— listed companies. (languages: German only)
Greece
* General Commercial Registry (''Γενικό Εμπορικό Μητρώο'')
* Official gazette – Company search
* Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EBEA)
Hungary
* Court of Company Registration — provides company information and electronic company registration service. It is maintained by the
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
. (languages:
Hungarian)
*Cégtaláló — searchable database. (languages: Hungarian)
*Financial Services Register — maintained by the
Hungarian National Bank
The Hungarian National Bank ( hu, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB)) is the central bank of Hungary and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The Hungarian National Bank was established in 1924 and succeeded the Royal Hungarian St ...
, also provides supervision of listed companies on
Budapest Stock Exchange
Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) ( hu, Budapesti Értéktőzsde (BÉT)) is the 2nd largest stock exchange in Central and Eastern Europe by market capitalization and liquidity. It is located at 55 Krisztina Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary, in the Buda ...
Iceland
* Company Directory (Directorate of Internal Revenue) — (languages:
Icelandic)
Ireland
*
Companies Registration Office
**Company Search — company directory
**Registry of Friendly Societies
Italy
* Italian Business Register — public register of company details, maintained by the Italian Business Register Office, found in local Chambers of Commerce in Italy. (languages:
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, English)
*Infocamere — company register of the Italian Chambers of Commerce. Information can be obtained from Infocamere and via the
European Business Register
The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several European countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the f ...
(EBR). (languages: Italian, mostly)
* Infoimprese — (languages: Italian)
*
Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa
Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB; Italian Companies and Exchange Commission) is the government authority of Italy responsible for regulating the Italian securities market. This includes the regulation of the Italian stock ex ...
listed companies
Latvia
* Registry of Enterprises of Latvia. Registry also publish free publicly accessible database of companies of Latvia.
* Lursoft — database of all enterprises, public organizations, and foreign company agencies registered within the territory of Latvia, including information of their managers, shareholders
fixed capital
In accounting, fixed capital is any kind of real, physical asset that is used repeatedly in the production of a product. In economics, fixed capital is a type of capital good that as a real, physical asset is used as a means of production which i ...
, and annual accounts.
The information is based on original documents of the State Register of Enterprises. (languages:
Latvian, mostly)
Liechtenstein
* Commercial Register — maintained by the Office of Justice. (languages: German only)
Lithuania
* Register of Legal Entities
Luxembourg
* Luxembourg Business Registers
* Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés — the official register of
companies and associations in Luxembourg.
(languages: German, French)
* Business permits
* Official Gazette "Mémorial C"(Legilux)
* Supervised entities (
Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier
The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) is responsible for the financial regulation in Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy o ...
)
Malta
*
Malta Business Registry
The Malta Business Registry is a Maltese government agency responsible for the registration and regulatory compliance of companies and commercial partnerships within its jurisdiction.
Powers
The Malta Business Registry is responsible for the r ...
— registry of companies
The Netherlands
*Trade Register — company search, maintained by
Kamer van Koophandel The ''Kamer van Koophandel'' (KVK) is the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands. It is operated as a quango, guided by the ''Wet op de Kamer van Koophandel'' (Chamber of commerce law) 2013 and the ''Handelsregisterwet'' (Trade registry law) 2007.
...
. In the Netherlands, registration in the trade register is compulsory for almost every company.
(languages:
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
, English)
Norway
*
Brønnøysund Register Centre
Brønnøysund Register Centre (Norwegian Bokmål: Brønnøysundregistrene; formal name Registerenheten i Brønnøysund, Norwegian Nynorsk: Brønnøysundregistra) is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for the management of numerous ...
— government body under the
Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry ( Norwegian: Nærings- og handelsdepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry responsible for business, trade and industry. On 1 January 2014 it was merged into Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheri ...
, and consists of several different national EDP registers. (languages:
Norwegian
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including ...
, mostly)
* List of companies (
Agency for Public Management and eGovernment
The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment ( no, Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt) or Difi is a government agency subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform.
Responsibilities
It is responsible for help ...
)
* Registry of supervised entities (
Financial Supervisory Authority)
Poland
Regular company registers
There are two registers of entities which are obligated or allowed to register as entrepreneurs:
*
Ministry of Development (MR) – Central Registration and Information on Business (CEIDG) –
company register
A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under.
A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, accounta ...
for natural persons trading as
sole trader
A sole proprietorship, also known as a sole tradership, individual entrepreneurship or proprietorship, is a type of enterprise owned and run by one person and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business entity. A sole ...
s or their
civil law partnership
Civil may refer to:
* Civic virtue, or civility
*Civil action, or lawsuit
* Civil affairs
*Civil and political rights
* Civil disobedience
*Civil engineering
* Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism
*Civilian, someone not a m ...
s (searchable); such companies are prohibited from performing certain activities (e.g. operating a life insurance company), and proper agricultural activity (
animal breeding
Animal breeding is a branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation (using best linear unbiased prediction and other methods) of the genetic value (estimated breeding value, EBV) of livestock. Selecting for breeding animals with superior EB ...
,
plant cultivation) of an individual farmer is also excluded from registration in CEIDG; the register does not assign its own registration number, using the NIP (see below) for this purpose instead
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
(MS):
**National Court Register (KRS) (searchable) — register of the majority of juridical persons types, a well as other collective (private) legal entities (there are, however, numerous exceptions, see
List of official business registers#Registers of businesses excluded from registration as entrepreneurs); assigns a registration number (numer KRS), mandatory to be exposed on all outbound company documents and letters; some activities (e.g. operating a school) are not available to all entities registered in KRS, but only to those who are juridical persons; members of some professions are not allowed to practise in all of the company types (e.g. an advocate is prohibited from practising the profession in the form of a limited liability company); its constituent parts are:
*** Register of Entrepreneurs (''Rejestr przedsiębiorców'') — the
company register
A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under.
A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, accounta ...
for entities other than natural persons which hold an obligatory status of entrepreneurs: trade partnerships: either entities with legal capacity but lacking juridical personality (registered partnerships, limited partnerships, limited joint-stock partnerships, professional partnerships), or juridical persons (limited liability companies, joint-stock companies), as well as for other types of entrepreneurs who are juridical persons, as well as any of the juridical persons registered in the Register of Associations, Other Social and Professional Organizations, Foundations and Independent Public Healthcare Institutions (see below) if they intend to perform business activities (when allowed by their bylaws, excluding the stand-alone public healthcare institutions, as they are not allowed to register as an entrepreneur, as well as those of juridical persons or other legal entities who are registered in the KRS exclusively for the purpose of obtaining status of an officially recognized charity - public benefit organization, and would otherwise be excluded from the registration in the KRS - see below)
*** Register of Associations, Other Social and Professional Organizations, Foundations and Stand-alone Public Healthcare Institutions (''Rejestr stowarzyszeń, innych organizacji społecznych i zawodowych, fundacji oraz samodzielnych publicznych zakładów opieki zdrowotnej'') — the other part of the KRS, is responsible for the registration of various other types of juridical persons. If any of the registered entities intends to perform business activities (when allowed by its bylaws), it also has to obtain registration in the Register of Entrepreneurs; in addition, juridical persons or any other legal entities (including those otherwise excluded or exempt from the registration in the KRS – see below) also have to register, if they apply for the status of an officially recognized charity (public benefit organization); however, as an exception, registration solely for that purpose neither confers juridical personality to entities lacking one, nor does it create obligation or right to register as an entrepreneur;
** Court and Commercial Gazette (''Monitor Sądowy i Gospodarczy'') – official gazette (searchable);
** Financial document viewer (''Przeglądarka dokumentów finansowych'') - the official free viewer of financial documents that allows to download financial documents of an entity entered in the Register of Entrepreneurs of the National Court Register, in particular financial statements, reports on activities, resolutions on the allocation of profit or coverage of losses. The KRS number of the entity is needed to search.
Registers of businesses excluded from registration as entrepreneurs
Registers of some of the types of businesses excluded from registration as entrepreneurs which are available online include the following (the list does not include registries of entities established through a centralized
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
-level procedure, namely the
European Research Infrastructure Consortia, the
European political parties and the
European political foundation
A European political foundation, formally a political foundation at European level, informally a Eurofoundation, is a Think tank, research and advocacy organization close to, but independent from a Europarty. They are funded by the European Parl ...
s):
* Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARMiR) – National Register of the Rural Women's Associations (searchable);Register of Producers, Agricultural Holdings and Applications for Payment Entitlements
- (non-searchable; however, the bulk of data may be obtained from the Directory of
Common Agricultural Policy
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce the ...
Beneficiaries - see above);
* Polish Waters National Water Management Holding (PGW WP) – IT system for protection against extraordinary hazards (ISOK) – Informatics System for Water Management (SIGW) – water cadaster, which includes the centralized register of water corporations, levee unions (input operated at the local level by the starostas) and the unions of water companies or levee unions (input operated at the local level by the voivodes) (searchable)
* Central Office of Geodesy (Land Survey) and Cartography – 'Land and Buildings Records (EGiB) – land and buildings cadaster, which includes the centralized register of common land management corporations (input operated at the local level by the starostas)
(searchable)
* Polish Hunting Association (PZŁ) – Registers of Hunting Clubs, available on websites of each of the 49 district boards of the Association, located in: Biała Podlaska , Białystok , Bielsko-Biała , Bydgoszcz , Chełm , Ciechanów , Częstochowa , Elbląg , Gdańsk , Gorzów Wlkp. , Jelenia Góra , Kalisz , Katowice , Kielce , Konin , Koszalin , Kraków , Krosno , Legnica , Leszno , Lublin , Łomża , Łódź , Nowy Sącz , Olsztyn , Opole , Ostrołęka , Piła , Piotrków Tryb. , Płock , Poznań , Przemyśl , Radom , Rzeszów ,
Siedlce , Sieradz , Skierniewice , Słupsk , Suwałki , Szczecin , Tarnobrzeg , Tarnów , Toruń , Wałbrzych , Warszawa , Włocławek , Wrocław , Zamość , Zielona Góra
*
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...
(PAN) – Register of (PAN) Research Institutes (searchable)
*
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
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A Ministry of Higher Education is a government department that focuses on the provision or regulation of institutions of higher education. In some countries these exist as ministries compounde ...
(MNiSW) – Register of Higher Education Institutions – includes both public and private institutions (searchable)
*
Ministry of National Education (MEN) – Register of Schools and Educational Institutions
– includes also the ''jednostki systemu oświaty'' (schools or educational institutions other than higher education institutions) (searchable)
*
Ministry of Interior and Administration – register of inter-municipal unions, inter-county unions, as well as cross-category unions of municipalities and counties , (downloadable lists); Database of Territorial Self-Government Units , (downloadable lists in various formats); Register of Churches and Other Confessional Communities , (only the list of denominations downloadable; non-searchable is the detailed part of the register, covering ecclesiastical juridical persons or other legal entities);
* Ministry of Justice - List of judicial enforcement officers (bailiffs) , (searchable), the list is also available as a search engine on the website of their regulatory college, the National Council of Judicial Officers ,
* General Directorate for Environmental Protection (GDOŚ) – Central Register of Forms of Environmental Protection – includes the register of national parks, available as a search engine , or a GIS/cadaster (searchable),
*
Bureau for Forest Management and Geodesy
Bureau ( ) may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
* Government agency
*Public administration
* News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
* Bureau (European Parliament), the administra ...
State Enterprise on behalf of the
State Forests National Forest Holding - Forest Data Bank - the official forest inventory and the forestry cadaster, also includes data on all territorial units of the State Forests (searchable),
* District Court in Warsaw (SO w Warszawie) – Register of Political Parties (searchable); Register of Pension Funds (searchable only in person; however, the bulk of the data may be obtained from the combined search engine of the
Polish Financial Supervision Authority
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) ( pl, Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF)) is the financial regulatory authority for Poland. Its responsibilities include oversight of banking, capital markets, insurance, pension scheme and electron ...
- see below); Register of Investment Funds (searchable only in person; however, the bulk of the data may be obtained from the combined search engine of the
Polish Financial Supervision Authority
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) ( pl, Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF)) is the financial regulatory authority for Poland. Its responsibilities include oversight of banking, capital markets, insurance, pension scheme and electron ...
- see below); Register of Family Foundations
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs – List of
European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation registered in Poland (downloadable list)
* Ministry of Infrastructure – info-car.pl website operated under contract with the Ministry by the Polish Security Printing Works – database of voivodeship road traffic centers (searchable)
Notably absent are:
* a central register of public cultural institutions. Each of the actual or potential parent entities (a ministry, a central government agency, or a territorial self-government unit) is obligated to maintain its own register of subordinate public cultural institutions, which results in almost 3000 separate official registers of such institutions, operated in various forms and independently of each other, each containing only a few to a dozen entries (if any), available on website of each of the parent entities;
* a register of
homeowner communities
* a register of
common land
Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect Wood fuel, wood, or to cut turf for fuel.
A person ...
communities
Other general official business registers
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
(MS):
**National Register of the Indebted (''Krajowy Rejestr Zadłużonych'') — insolvency register separate from the KRS, designed to include entries on insolvent debtors: either private natural persons (e.g. child support, maintenance or tax debtors, consumer bankrupts), entrepreneurs, or any other legal entities, regardless whether they are registered in the National Court Register or the Central Registration and Information on Business ; (searchable)
** Register of Pledges (''Rejestr Zastawów'') – allows to submit an inquiry concerning registered (thus legally binding) pledges and voluntary specific liens put on a collateral, either a movable, such as a vehicle (a road vehicle, a rolling stock vehicle, an aircraft, a boat, or a ship, excluding ships registered by one of the 2 maritime chambers in the Register of Ships, because they are covered by a dedicated instrument called
ship mortgage
In a ship mortgage (common law) or ship hypothec ( civil law term, covering also a maritime lien), a shipowner gives a lender (or mortgagee) a security interest in a ship as collateral for a mortgage loan. Similar to other types of mortgages, ...
), other types of machines, a
controlled weapon, a movable object of
cultural property
Cultural property does not have a universal definition, but it is commonly considered to be tangible (physical, material) items that are part of the cultural heritage of a group or society, as opposed to less tangible cultural expressions. They in ...
, or on a security, as well as on an intellectual property right; the register is connected to the relevant vehicle, security, or intellectual property right register, in cases, where such exists ;
** Land and Mortgage Register (''Elektroniczne Księgi Wieczyste'') – contains official and legally binding entries (done by selected ''
sąd rejonowy'' courts) on real estate rights (including ownership), obligations (such as any pledges or liens), as well as warnings concerning unsettled or ongoing claims, any detected outdated entries (e.g. a dead person or a dissolved entity listed as owner), or any detected discrepancies with the referenced relevant Land and Buildings Records (the cadaster) entry – search by the register number (searchable);
**
National Criminal Register (''Krajowy Rejestr Karny'') – contains entries on all entities convicted and sentenced for a felony or crime, or for a fiscal felony or crime, either natural persons (including entrepreneurs), or (in selected types of felony or crime) juridical persons or other collective legal entities (such as trade partnerships) (access to data on a person or an entity is available on a paid request by the person or the entity concerned; on a paid request by an employer, in cases concerning a job restricted by law to unconvicted persons; on a paid request by a juridical person or other collective legal entity, in cases concerning membership of its governing body, status of its authorized signaotory, or acquisition of its shares, when restricted by law to unconvicted persons; on a free-of-charge-demand by an authorized public institution or authorities of another EU state (or a non-EU state, under an international agreement, or under the principle of reciprocity) );
* Central Office of Geodesy (Land Survey) and Cartography – Geoportal
– provides access to the:
** Land and Buildings Records (EGiB) – the official
cadaster
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
of land, buildings, and
owner-occupancies,
** Geodetic Records of Utilities Networks (GESUT) – the official cadaster of
utilities networks,
* Ministry of Finance (MF) – Central Register of Beneficial Owners (CRBR) – a register of ultimate beneficial owners (searchable)
* National Fiscal Administration (KAS)
** Central Register of Entities – National Register of Taxpayers – tax register which assigns the Tax Identification Number (NIP) to all taxable entities, including companies, with the exception of natural persons not registered in the Central Registration and Information on Business, as they are required to use their Personal Identification Number (PESEL) instead of NIP for tax purposes. It is mandatory to include both seller's and buyer's NIP on all invoices (excluding those concerning consumer sales to private natural persons, where only the seller's NIP is required); its validation is available online (NIP validity check) ;
*** List of VAT Taxpayers (so-called VAT white list) – list of registered, unregistered and deleted entities and restored to the VAT register (VAT status check by NIP);
**** List of EU VAT Taxpayers – includes those Polish taxpayers who obtained registration allowing to perform intra-community supply transactions and to use their NIP with the ''PL-'' prefix as their EU VAT number; not mandatory for VAT-exempt entities involved in intra-commumity supply transactions worth altogether less than 50000PLN in the given year, unless they do not perform services by delegating their employees to another EU country (EU VAT status check available through the EU-operated
VAT Information Exchange System The VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) is an electronic means of transmitting information relating to VAT registration (i.e., validity of VAT numbers) of companies registered in the European Union. EU law requires that, where goods or services ...
;
**
Tax and Customs Service (SCS) – Electronic Services Portal of the Tax and Customs Service (PUESC) (searchable) – assigns the IDSISC number for customs or excise purposes, and provides access to the:
*** Central Register of Excise Entities (CRPA) – confirms granting of excise authorization to excise entities, supplies their data to the EU Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) through the System for the Exchange of Excise Data (SEED), and registers their IDSISC number in the SEED PL database (searchable), IDSISC (SEED PL) number validation is also available on the website operated by the EU
(SEED number check)
*** (EU customs) Registered Exporter System (REX) – registered Polish entities (searchable), REX number validation oś also available on the website operated by the EU
(REX number check)
*** (EU customs) Economic Operator Identification and Registration System (EORI) (for registration purposes only) – EORI number validation is available on the website operated by the EU
(EORI number check)
*** (EU customs) Economic Operator Systems Authorized Economic Operator Database (EOS AEO) (for registration purposes only) – Authorized Economic Operator Database is available on the website operated by the EU
(searchable)
** Register of Tax Liens – register of tax liens put on a collateral, either a movable, such as a vehicle (a road vehicle, a rolling stock vehicle, an aircraft, a boat, or a ship, excluding ships registered by one of the 2 maritime chambers in the Register of Ships, because they are covered by a dedicated instrument called ship mortgage), other types of machines, a firearm, a movable object of cultural property, or on a security, as well as on an intellectual property right; (searchable by serial or identification number) ;
* Polish
Social Insurance Institution
The Social Insurance Institution ( pl, Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS) is a Polish state organization responsible for social insurance
Social insurance is a form of social welfare that provides insurance against economic risks. The i ...
(ZUS) – Central Register of Contribution Payers (non-searchable) – tax register of all entities (including companies) paying compulsory social and health insurance contributions for their employees (or health insurance only, in the case of professions covered by special non-insurance pensions systems funded by the state budget: judges, public prosecutors, professional soldiers and members of other national uniformed services), as well as natural persons obligated to pay social and/or health insurance contributions for themselves (including sole traders, partners of a civil law partnership, registered partnership, limited partnership, limited joint-stock partnership, professional partnership, single-shareholder limited liability company, as well as artists), and people paying voluntary social and/or health insurance contributions; the register does not include individual farmers paying their social and health insurance contributions to the separate Agricultural Social Insurance Fund, as well as members of uniformed services delegated to work an undercover job. It does not assign a dedicated identification number, using the existing numbers (NIP, REGON, PESEL) for identification purposes instead;
* Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS) - Register of Agricultural Social Insurance and Health Insurance Contribution Payers (non-searchable) – tax register of individual farmers for the purposes of collecting compulsory agricultural social insurance and health insurance contributions. Farmers paying the agricultural social insurance for at least 3 years may register as entrepreneurs in CEIDG and engage in additional business activities while retaining the right to remain in the agricultural social insurance system, under the conditions that they continue agricultural production and do not exceed certain limits on income from the additional activity. Farmers may also pay to KRUS health insurance and diminished social insurance contributions (limited to sickness, maternity and accident insurance, but excluding the pension and disability insurance) for seasonal workers employed up to 180 days per year for harvesting fruits, vegetables, herbs, tobacco, hop, or flowers. Any other employees of a farmer fall under the general
Social Insurance Institution
The Social Insurance Institution ( pl, Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS) is a Polish state organization responsible for social insurance
Social insurance is a form of social welfare that provides insurance against economic risks. The i ...
system.
*
Central Statistical Office (GUS) – National Official Business Register –
statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register ...
which assigns the Statistical Identification Number (REGON) to all public and private juridical persons, as well as all other entities, with the exception of natural persons other than entrepreneurs. It is mandatory to expose REGON on all company stamps as well as outbound documents and letters (searchable);
* Intellectual property registers
** Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (UPRP) – Patent Office Registries e-Search industrial property database which includes trade marks, industrial designs, utility models, and integrated circuits (excluding those of the four types, which have been registered by the
European Union Intellectual Property Office
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; french: links=no, Office de l'Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle), founded in 1994, is the European Union Agency responsible for the registration of the European Union trad ...
), as well as inventions (national patents), and (
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation )
European patent
The European Patent Convention (EPC), also known as the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to w ...
s, including the EU
unitary patents
The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which will benefit from unitary effect in the participating member states of the European Union. Unitary effect may be requested by the proprietor ...
(but without their unitary effect due to Polish opt-out caused by EU's failure to award the
Polish language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...
the status in the scheme equal to that of
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
,
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
or
French, and therefore, such patents are treated in Poland as ordinary EPO patents) (searchable)
** Research Centre for Cultivar Testing (COBORU) – The List of Varieties Protected by Plant Breeders' Rights and The List of Varieties Which are the Subject of an Application for the Grant of the Plant Breeders' Rights – Protected by Provisional PBR – national register of
plant breeders’ rights
Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are rights granted to the breeder of a new variety of plant that give the breeder exclusive control over the propagating material (including seed, cuttings, divisions, tissue ...
, does not include the varieties registered by the
Community Plant Variety Office
The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France. It was established in 1994. Its task is to administer a system of plant variety rights, also known as plant breeders' rights, a form of intel ...
(downloadable list); List of breeders, breeders’ representatives and licensees (searchable); (some of these lists may also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies);
* Official vehicle registries
**
Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: ''Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów''), or KPRM, is the executive office for the Prime Minister of Poland. Created under the administrative reorganization reforms by the government of Włod ...
– Central Registry of Vehicles and Drivers
*** Central Registry of Vehicles – contains data on all registered road vehicles. Vehicle History service (searchable by entering combination of vehicle registration number, date of first registration of the vehicle, and VIN number)
**
Office of Rail Transport
An office is a space where an Organization, organization's employees perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize objects and Goals, plans, action theory, goals of the organizati ...
(UTK) – National Rail Vehicle Registry (non-searchable);
**
Civil Aviation Authority
A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national or supranational statutory authority that oversees the regulation of civil aviation, including the maintenance of an aircraft register.
Role
Due to the inherent dangers in the use of flight vehicles, ...
(ULC) – Register of Civil Aircraft (non-searchable);
** Registries of vessels (registration is permitted in only single of the five registries at a time, depending on the vessel's size, designation, equipment, usage, and ownership; some of the vessels may require an additional registration: by a
ship classification society
A ship classification society or ship classification organisation is a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures. Classification societies ...
, or for the purposes of obtaining the
ENI number
An ENI number (European Number of Identification or European Vessel Identification Number) is a registration for ships capable of navigating on inland European waters. It is a unique, eight-digit identifier that is attached to a hull for its enti ...
, the
IMO number
The IMO number of the International Maritime Organization is a generic term covering two distinct meanings. The IMO ship identification number, is a type of hull number used as a unique ship identifier, and the IMO company and registered owner ...
, or the
MMSI number
A Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) is effectively a maritime object's international ''maritime telephone number'', a temporarily assigned UID, issued by that object's current flag state, (unlike an IMO, which is a global forever UID).
An ...
- see sector specific registers and lists below; ships belonging to the Navy, the Border Guard or the Police are excluded from registration):
*** Ministry of Infrastructure – Registry of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length (searchable by entering combination of: vessel registration number; vessel identification number such as HIN Hull Identification Number, CIN Craft Identification Number, WIN Watercraft Identification Number, vessels lacking any of them are awarded INI Individual Identification Number at first registration; date of first registration of the vessel) – responsible for the registration of following vessels up to 24 meters in length: all yachts (defined as ships used exclusively for sports and recreation, including jetski, houseboats, and wooden replicas of historical vessels); inland or maritime non-commercial yachts; inland or maritime commercial yachts up to 12 passengers (including yachts used for paid cruises, training cruises, chartered cruises, commercial lending for
recreational fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition. It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is professional fishing for profit; or subsistence fishing, which is fishing ...
and
angling
Angling is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook or "angle" (from Old English ''angol'') attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniqu ...
or for other purposes); other inland commercial and non-commercial fishing or angling vessels;
*** Inland Navigation Offices: in Bydgoszcz, in Szczecin, and in Wrocław – Administrative Registry of Inland Waterways Vessels (non-searchable) – registry of inland waterways vessels not covered by the Registry of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length;
*** Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW) – Registry of Fishing Vessels (non-searchable at national level) – registry of Polish maritime commercial vessels used in
fisheries
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a. fishing ground). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms, both ...
within the
Common Fisheries Policy (searchable via the EU Fleet Register operated by the European Commission)
*** Maritime Chambers: by the District Court in Szczecin and by the District Court in Gdańsk (seated Gdynia) – Registry of Ships (''Rejestr okrętowy'') (searchable in person on site free of charge, or on a written paid request, access unrestricted) – the primary official registry of all maritime ships used in international traffic and owned by Polish entities or other EU entities (if not registered in an other EU country), including merchant ships, excluding ships covered by the Registry of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length, or the Registry of Fishing Vessels. Contains information on all rights to the ship, as well as on all obligations (
ship mortgage
In a ship mortgage (common law) or ship hypothec ( civil law term, covering also a maritime lien), a shipowner gives a lender (or mortgagee) a security interest in a ship as collateral for a mortgage loan. Similar to other types of mortgages, ...
, ship liens). May also contain entries (on a voluntary basis) on maritime ships owned by entities other than Polish, which obtained temporary Polish registration, maritime ships under construction on the Polish territory, and maritime ships exempt from obligation to register by the Maritime Chamber (see below);
*** Maritime Offices: in Szczecin and in Gdynia: Administrative Registry of Maritime Ships (non-searchable) – obligatory registry for maritime ships exempt from registration in the ordinary Registry of Ships (maritime vessels not covered by the Registry of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length or by the Registry of Fishing Vessels, which are not used in international traffic: up to 15 m in length when equipped with mechanical propulsion, or any length when not equipped with mechanical propulsion) – unless owners of such vessel decided to waive exemption and choose to register in the regular Register of Ships;
* Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) – Public Aid Data Sharing System (searchable)
* Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW) – Directory of
Common Agricultural Policy
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce the ...
Beneficiaries (searchable)
* Public Procurement Office – (UZP) e-Zamówienia (e-Procurement) Platform (searchable)
* National Institute of Cultural Heritage -
Registry of Cultural Property Registry of Cultural Property ( pl, Rejestr zabytków) in Poland is a heritage register for Polish cultural property. It is maintained by the 16 voivodeship offices for cultural property protection ( pl, wojewódzkie urzędy ochrony zabytków) hea ...
(partially searchable) - operated by the Voivodeship Offices for Cultural Property Protection, include immovable (monuments, buildings), archeological, and movable (artifacts)
cultural property
Cultural property does not have a universal definition, but it is commonly considered to be tangible (physical, material) items that are part of the cultural heritage of a group or society, as opposed to less tangible cultural expressions. They in ...
, in the latter two cases excluding movable items included in the national library fonds, the national archival fonds or in an inventory of a registered museum
*
Ministry of Interior and Administration - Arms Registration System (SRB) (non-searchable) - operated by the
Policja
Policja () is the generic name for the national police force of the Republic of Poland. The Polish police force was known as ''policja'' throughout the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), and in the modern Republic of Poland since 1990. Its cur ...
and (in regard to private firearms of soldiers in active service) by the
Military Gendarmerie
The Military Gendarmerie ( pl, Żandarmeria Wojskowa, abbreviated ''ŻW'') is a military police force established in 1990 in Poland as a specialized service of the Polish Armed Forces.
History
The Polish Military Gendarmerie is a military police ...
; includes all firearms held by private persons, companies and public institutions, as well as their history, excluding the service firearms of the state uniformed services or other state armed formations (but not the municipal ones), issues the
European Firearms Pass The European Firearms Pass (EFP) is a locally issued firearms licence in a common format that allows citizens of the European Union (EU) to travel with one or more firearm(s) mentioned on the licence from one member state to another. For certain pu ...
*
Internal Security Agency (ABW) – (civilian) list of entities holding industrial security clearance (downloadable list with levels of awarded clearances, and their applicability to NATO, EU or ESA classified information)
*
Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) – (military) list of issued industrial security clearances confirming the capability of an entrepreneur to protect classified information (downloadable lists with levels of awarded clearances, separately for national, NATO, EU and ESA classified information)
*
Polish Financial Supervision Authority
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) ( pl, Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF)) is the financial regulatory authority for Poland. Its responsibilities include oversight of banking, capital markets, insurance, pension scheme and electron ...
(KNF) – list of public stock issues after 1 January 2020 and their issuers (public companies) (searchable); list of public issues of financial instruments (including public stock issues) prior 1 January 2020 and their issuers (public companies, in the case of stocks) (downloadable list);
*
Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK) State Research Institute - National Domain Register - the Polish
country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all t ...
register, member of
Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries
The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) is an organization established to act as a peak body of top-level domain name registries.
The organisation was formed in 1998, created as a project of the RIPE Top-level Do ...
and
Country Code Names Supporting Organization (searchable)
*
GS1 Poland Foundation - assigns the
GTIN
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/
EAN Ean may refer to:
People
* Ean Campbell (1856–1921), Anglican bishop in the early 20th century
* Ean Elliot Clevenger, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter
* Ean Evans (1960–2009), bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2001 until his de ...
codes
*
Warsaw Stock Exchange
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), pl, Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie, is a stock exchange in Warsaw, Poland. It has a market capitalization of PLN 1.05 trillion (EUR 232 billion; as of December 23, 2020).
The WSE is a member of th ...
(GPW) Group
** GPW Main Market – the regulated market;
**
NewConnect
NewConnect is an alternative stock exchange allowing smaller companies to float shares. It is run by the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The exchange is conducted outside the regulated market as a multilateral trading facility.
Compared to the main mark ...
– an alternative (unregulated) stock exchange (
multilateral trading facility
A multilateral trading facility (MTF) is a European Union regulatory term for a self-regulated financial trading venue. These are alternatives to the traditional stock exchanges where a market is made in securities, typically using electronic s ...
),
*
Central Securities Depository of Poland The Central Securities Depository of Poland (''Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartościowych, KDPW'') is a Polish central securities depository responsible for the management and supervision of the depository-settlement system as it relates to the tradi ...
(KDPW) –
central securities depository A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial organization holding securities like shares, either in certificated or uncertificated ( dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather t ...
registering
dematerialized securities and their owners, and the
national numbering agency A national numbering agency (NNA) is the organisation in each country responsible for issuing International Securities Identification Numbers (ISIN) as described by the ISO 6166 standard and the Classification of Financial Instruments code as descri ...
which assigns the
Financial Instrument Short Name,
Classification of Financial Instruments code,
International Securities Identification Number
An International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) uniquely identifies a security. Its structure is defined in ISO 6166. The ISIN code is a 12-character alphanumeric code that serves for uniform identification of a security through normaliza ...
, as well as
Legal Entity Identifier. Its subsidiary KDPW_CCP is the national
central counterparty A central clearing counterparty (CCP), also referred to as a central counterparty, is a financial institution that takes on counterparty credit risk between parties to a transaction and provides clearing and settlement services for trades in fore ...
clearing house
Clearing house or Clearinghouse may refer to:
Banking and finance
* Clearing house (finance)
* Automated clearing house
* ACH Network, an electronic network for financial transactions in the U.S.
* Bankers' clearing house
* Cheque clearing
* Cl ...
.
Sector-specific registers and lists of regulated activities
*
Polish Financial Supervision Authority
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) ( pl, Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF)) is the financial regulatory authority for Poland. Its responsibilities include oversight of banking, capital markets, insurance, pension scheme and electron ...
(KNF) – register of securities listed on an exchange or on an alternative trading system; registers of various types of regulated financial entities (list incomplete): banks, co-operative banks, credit unions, pension funds, insurance companies, life insurance companies, mutual insurance companies, investment funds, stock exchanges, alternative trading systems, and commodities exchanges. A combined search engine.
*
Polish Bar Council In Poland, any person holding a Magister's degree in law (Polish: ''magister prawa'') is called a " jurist" or " lawyer" ( pl, prawnik). According to Polish legal doctrine, a lawyer should be understood as a person who graduated from law school wit ...
(NRA) – National Register of Barristers (and their offices) (searchable);
* National Chamber of Attorneys at Law (KIRP) – List of Attorneys at Law (and their offices) (searchable);
* National Council of Notaries (KRN) – List of notarial offices (searchable), available also through the EU e-Justice Portal (searchable), as well as the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (searchable)
* Polish Agency for Audit Oversight (PANA) – List of Audit Firms (searchable);
* National Chamber of Tax Advisors (KIDP) – Register of Juridical Persons Authorized to Perform Tax Advisory Activities (downloadable list); List of Tax Advisors (and either their offices, in the forms of sole tradeship, registered partnerships, limited partnerships, limited joint-stock partnerships, professional partnerships, or of juridical persons employing them) (downloadable list)
* Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (UPRP) – List of Patent Attorneys (and either their offices, in the forms of sole tradeship, registered partnerships, limited partnerships, limited joint-stock partnerships, professional partnerships, or of juridical persons employing them) (searchable)
*
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration
Ministry of the Interior and Administration ( pl, Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji) is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After Parliamentary Election on 9 ...
(MSWiA) – Register of Undertakings Licensed to Manufacture and Trade Explosives, Arms, Ammunition, and Devices or Technologies Designated for Police or Military Use (searchable); Register of Undertakings Performing Private Investigator Services (searchable); Register of Undertakings Licensed to Perform Personal and Property Protection Services (non-searchable); Register of Entities Performing Professional Lobbying Activities (downloadable list);
*
Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
(MF) – List of licensed casinos (downloadable list); List of licensed bookmakers and licensed internet gambling entities (downloadable list);
*
Ministry of National Education (MEN) – Register of Schools and Educational Institutions
– public and private schools and educational institutions, excluding higher education (searchable)
*
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
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A Ministry of Higher Education is a government department that focuses on the provision or regulation of institutions of higher education. In some countries these exist as ministries compounde ...
(MNiSW) – List of Non-Public Higher Education Institutions – list of licensed non-public universities and colleges (searchable)
*
Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy (MRPiPS) – National Register of Employment Agencies (searchable); Register of Nurseries and Children's Clubs (searchable); Register of Social Assistance Units – register of public and private entities such as retirement homes, assisted living homes (but not nursing homes, as they are considered healthcare entities) (searchable)
*
Ministry of Health (MZ)
** Register of Entities Performing Medical Activities (RPWDL) , consists of:
*** Register of Health Entities - includes public and private, commercial and non-commercial healthcare entities, registered by the relevant
voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...
, without caps on the numbers of medical professionals employed or (in case of private entities) specific restrictions on legal form or stakeholder composition of the entity; assigns an identification number (''kod resortowy'') to the whole entity, with an extension number for each of its organisational units; the catalogue of the covered types includes among others: hospitals, larger clinics (including dental), health spa entities, nursing homes, hospices, medical transport entities, diagnostic medical laboratories (obligated to register also on the List of Diagnostic Medical Laboratories of the National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians (KIDL), as well as stores (dispensaries) employing qualified medical technicians or craftsmen, involved in retail, fitting and repairs of various medical prosthetic devices (such as glasses, dental prostheses, hearing aides, orthopaedic devices);
*** registers of individual and group professional practices of physicians, dentists, nurses, midwives, and physiotherapists (but excluding pharmacists, as pharmacies are registered in a separate register - see below, and laboratory diagnosticians, as a medical laboratory is in any case a health entity or a part of one - see above), operated by the respective
regulatory college
Regulatory colleges are legal entities in Canada charged with serving the public interest by regulating the practice of a profession. They function as professional associations that are state-sanctioned to regulate the practice of their profession ...
s, with legal entity types limited exclusively to
sole proprietorship
A sole proprietorship, also known as a sole tradership, individual entrepreneurship or proprietorship, is a type of enterprise owned and run by one person and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business entity. A sole ...
in the case of individual practices, as well as to two types of trade partnerships (registered partnership or professional partnership) in the case of group practices; services are provided primarily by their owners, while employment of other-than-owner members of the same medical profession is generally prohibited, except for only a few specific situations, such as hiring for professional training, or hiring a temporary substitution during the owner's absence (searchable);
** Register of Pharmacies - with the
State Pharmaceutical Inspection
State may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Literature
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* ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
* ''Our ...
organs fulfilling the role of registration authority; includes
community pharmacies, community dispensaries (scope-limited, allowed exclusively in rural areas lacking otherwise a pharmacy), establishment pharmacies (in prisons or military garrisons),
hospital pharmacies, hospital
dispensaries
A dispensary is an office in a school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses medications, medical supplies, and in some cases even medical and dental treatment. In a traditional dispensary set-up, a pharmacist dispense ...
other than pharmacies (scope-limited, fulfilling basic dispensary tasks, with more advanced functions outsourced to an external
hospital pharmacy
A hospital pharmacy is a
department within a hospital that prepares, compounds, stocks and dispenses inpatient medications. Hospital pharmacies usually stock a larger range of medications, including more specialized and investigational medicatio ...
), the latter two types required to be also included as a unit of the parent entity in the Register of Heath Entities (searchable);
** Register of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (searchable)
*
National Health Fund
The Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia is the National Health Fund of Poland. It was established by Act of the Sejm of 27 August 2004 on a proposal of Mariusz Lipinski, then the minister of health that there should be just one centralized government instit ...
(NFZ) – ''Central List of Healthcare Providers (CWŚ)'' – a public contract list of public and private healthcare providers operating under a contract with the NFZ within the general health insurance system (searchable)
* State Sanitary Inspection - Register of Establishments Producing or Marketing Food Subject to the Official Control of the State Sanitary Inspection (non-searchable) - includes farmers cultivating plants, wholesalers, retailers and other undertakings involved in production, processing or marketing of food intended for human consumption, other than production, processing or marketing of animal-derived food already supervised by the Veterinary Inspection), as well as all gastronomy establishments, and producers or recyclers of materials designated for contact with food intended for human consumption; Register of Cosmetic Product Producers (non-searchable); List of designated yellow fever vaccination centers (downloadable list)
* State Pharmaceutical Inspection (PIF) – Register of Manufacturers and Importers of Medicinal Products (searchable); National Register of Manufacturers, Importers and Distributors of Active Substances (searchable);
* Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products (URPLWMiPB) – Register of Medicinal Products and the Register of Marketing Aurhorization Holders – register of all medicines with market authorization in Poland; including those authorized by the
European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products. Prior to 2004, it was known as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products or Euro ...
; Record of manufacturers of active substances used in the manufacture of veterinary medicinal products with anabolic, anti-infectious, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory, hormonal or psychotropic properties (non-searchable);
* Polish Medicines Verification Organisation Foundation (KOWAL) - national operator of the
European Medicines Verification System
European, or Europeans, or Europeneans, may refer to:
In general
* ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe
** Ethnic groups in Europe
** Demographics of Europe
** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe ...
(non-searchable)
* National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians (KIDL) – List of Diagnostic Medical Laboratories – list of healthcare entities operating a clinical laboratory (searchable)
*
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW) – Register of entities producing or bottling wine products (downloadable list); Register of entities producing or processing ethyl alcohol (downloadable list); Register of entities producing tobacco products (downloadable list); Register of entities producing or bottling liquor drinks (downloadable list); (some of these lists also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies);
* Veterinary Inspection (IW) – Lists and registers of supervised establishments, including: production, processing and marketing of meat, eggs, fish, milk, and dairy, production and marketing of animal feed, list of veterinary pharmaceutical wholesalers (some of these lists also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies) (downloadable lists);
* Polish National Veterinary Chamber (KILW) - List of Veterinary Care Establishments (searchable)
* State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service (PIORiN) – various registers of undertakings performing activities related to plant health, plant protection products and equipment used to apply them, seed production, as well as integrated plant production (some of these lists also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies) (partially available as downloadable lists);
* National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) (some of these lists also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies) – Register of biocomponent producers (downloadable list); Register of entities importing biocomponents (downloadable list); Register of farmers producing biofuels for their own use (downloadable list); Register of agricultural biogas producers (downloadable list); Register of first purchasers of cow milk (downloadable list);
* Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARMiR) – Register of Producers, Agricultural Holdings and Applications for Payment Entitlements
– system operated for the purposes of state-funded, EU-funded or co-funded payment mechanisms in agriculture and fisheries; its constituent Register of Producers includes agricultural producers, animal holders, beneficiaries of fisheries programmes, organizations of producers, entities operating a rendering plant, and potential beneficiaries, as well as their farmę agricultural holdings (non-searchable); (some of these lists also include individual farmers whose farms have not been registered as companies);
*
Ministry of Sport and Tourism (MSiT) – Central List of Hotel Establishments – list of officially rated establishments providing legally specified services, including room service, bed-making and cleaning of sanitary facilities, at least on a daily basis, classified as: hotels, motels, boarding houses (all are rated category * to *****), trail shelters (rated „compliant”), inns, youth hostels, school youth hostels (all rated category I to III), as well as camping sites (rated category * to ****) and tent camp sites (rated „compliant”); it does not include certain other unrated and unclassified accommodation facilities (prohibited from using any of the abovementioned protected designations of type or category in their facility or company name), registered on a communal list only, such as hostels, holiday centres/dwellings, holiday youth centres, training-recreational centres, creative arts centres, complexes of tourist cottages, rooms for guests in private houses, private lodgings, rooms in spa healthcare entities, or agritourism facilities operated by farmers (searchable); List of Polish Sports Unions (list)
* Insurance Guarantee Fund (UFG) – Central Records of Tour Operators and Entrepreneurs Facilitating Linked Travel Arrangements (searchable); Database of Compulsory Vehicle Liability Insurance (insurance check by registration number)
*
Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) – Register of Postal Operators (searchable); Register of Telecommunications Undertakings (searchable); Register of Maritime and Inland Ship Radio Station Permits with assigned ship callsigns,
MMSI
A Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) is effectively a maritime object's international ''maritime telephone number'', a temporarily assigned UID, issued by that object's current flag state, (unlike an IMO, which is a global forever UID).
An ...
and
ATIS numbers (downloadable list); registers of various other permits, including radiocommunication, radio and TV broadcasting permits (concerning exclusively technical aspects, while the issues such as awarding radio and TV broadcasting licenses, assessment of proposed format or evaluation of already broadcast content, are handled by the
National Broadcasting Council (see below)
* Energy Regulatory Office (URE) – registries of various types of energy undertakings (list incomplete): holders of concessions for trade of liquid fuels, holders of concessions for trade of fuels other than liquid; electric energy distributors, operators of electric energy transmission systems; natural gas distributors, operators of natural gas transmission systems, natural gas storage facilities, natural gas liquefaction facilities, liquid natural gas regasification facilities. (downloadable lists)
* Polish Centre for Accreditation - list of accredited organisations (includes: testing, medical and calibration laboratories; management systems, persons and product certification bodies, inspection bodies etc.)
*
Civil Aviation Authority
A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national or supranational statutory authority that oversees the regulation of civil aviation, including the maintenance of an aircraft register.
Role
Due to the inherent dangers in the use of flight vehicles, ...
(ULC) – List of Licensed Air Carriers, List of Holders of Air Operator Certificate (downloadable lists); List of holders of permits to provide ground handling services to third parties (downloadable list); List of Holders of Airport Handling Agent Certificate (downloadable list); List of Holders of Permits for Airport Management (downloadable list); Register of Civil Aerodromes, List of Officially Listed Civil Airfields (downloadable lists);
*
Polish Register of Shipping Polish Register of Shipping, (in Polish: ''Polski Rejestr Statków S.A.''), also known as PRS, is an independent classification society established in 1936. It is a not-for-profit company working on the marine market, developing technical rules and ...
–
ship classification society
A ship classification society or ship classification organisation is a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures. Classification societies ...
recognized at national, EU (both maritime and inland shipping), and IMO levels, member of
International Association of Classification Societies
The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is a technically based non-governmental organization that currently consists of eleven member marine classification societies. More than 90% of the world's cargo-carrying ships’ ton ...
; it brokers assignment of the
IMO number
The IMO number of the International Maritime Organization is a generic term covering two distinct meanings. The IMO ship identification number, is a type of hull number used as a unique ship identifier, and the IMO company and registered owner ...
(earchable)
* Inland Navigation Offices (in Bydgoszcz, Szczecin and Warsaw) - Register of Ships Capable of Navigating on Inland European Waters – assigns the
ENI number
An ENI number (European Number of Identification or European Vessel Identification Number) is a registration for ships capable of navigating on inland European waters. It is a unique, eight-digit identifier that is attached to a hull for its enti ...
to vessels requiring classification by an EU-recognised inland
ship classification society
A ship classification society or ship classification organisation is a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures. Classification societies ...
for navigation in EU inland waterways, upon their registration either in the Register of Inland Waterways Vessels or in the Register of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length (non-searchable);
* Office of Rail Transport (UTK) – List of licensed rail carriers (downloadable list);
* Inspection of Road Transport (ITD) – Polish Registry of Road Transport Undertakings (searchable)
* State Geological Institute-State Research Institute/State Geological Service (PIG-PIB/PSG) – System of management and protection of mineral resources in Poland – MIDAS – register of deposits, mining areas and mining countries as well as related concessions, synonymous with a mining cadaster (searchable)
*
National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) – List of public broadcasters ; List of licensed broadcasters, registered internet TV broadcasters, cable TV network and satellite TV platform operators
Portugal
* Citizen Portal – Company search
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
– Entity Search
Romania
*
Ministry of Public Finance
The Ministry of Public Finance of Guatemala is the government ministry of Guatemala in charge of governing the fiscal policy and public finances.
History
The ministry was established by a decree in April 1839. In April 1945, it was renamed as ...
– Business search
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
– The National Trade Register Office (ONRC)
* Financial Supervisory Authority
*
Bucharest Stock Exchange
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) ( Romanian: ''Bursa de Valori București'') is the stock exchange of Romania located in Bucharest. In 2019, the capitalization of BVB increased 23.4% compared to the previous year, to the value of EUR 37.8 billi ...
– Companies directory
Slovakia
*Companies Register of the Slovak Republic — searchable directory. (languages:
Slovak, English)
Slovenia
* Slovenian Business Register (ePRS) — maintained by the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services (AJPES). ePRS includes companies (partnerships and corporations), sole proprietors, legal entities governed by private law, societies, natural persons performing registered or regulated activities, subsidiaries and other divisions of business entities and main offices of foreign business entities.
(languages: interface in
Slovene, English, German, Italian; information in Slovene, English)
* Firmica.si — provides company formation services in Slovenia; not an official registry
*List of taxable legal entities (Financial Administration) — (languages: Slovene)
* Central Securities Clearing Corporation
* List of public companies (Securities Market Agency)
Spain
* Central Mercantile Registry (, RMC) — subscription service providing legal Information of companies, statistics, and company names. (languages: English, French, German, Spanish).
* Association of Spanish Property & Commercial Registers — subscription service
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National Securities Market Commission
The National Securities Market Commission () (often abbreviated as CNMV) is the Spanish government agency responsible for the financial regulation of the securities markets in Spain. It is an independent agency that falls under the Ministry of ...
(''Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores''), search by entity — (languages: Spanish)
Sweden
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Companies Registration Office (
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
: ''Bolagsverket'') — (languages: Swedish, some English)
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Financial Supervisory Authority:
**Listed company search (''Börsinformation'')
**Company register
Afghanistan
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Minister of Commerce and Industries – Central Business Registry
Albania
* National Business Center (''Qendra Kombetare e Biznesit'')
Algeria
*The National Center of The Trade Register (''Centre National du Registre du Commerce (CNRC)'')
Andorra
* Oficina de Marques
Angola
* Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – Central Register of Business Names (''Ficheiro Central de Denominações Sociais'') (not searchable)
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Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
– Registry of State Suppliers
Antigua and Barbuda
* Financial Services Regulatory Commission (not searchable)
Argentina
* Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
* Official Gazette (Click on "Sociedades")
* Federal Administration of Public Revenue – tax identification number (''CUIT'') check
* National Securities Commission – Issuers
* National Procurement Office – Providers
*
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship ( es, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto; MRECIC), informally referred to as the Chancellery ( es, Cancillería), is the Argentine government minis ...
– Directory of Importers/Exporters
Armenia
* Ministry of Justice – State Register of the Legal Entities
* Tax Service – Taxpayers
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Central Bank of Armenia
The Central Bank of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Կենտրոնական Բանկ, translit=Hayastani Kentronakan Bank) is the central bank of Armenia with its headquarters in Yerevan. The CBA is an independent institution responsible for issu ...
– Listed Companies
Australia
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Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent commission of the Australian Government tasked as the national corporate regulator. ASIC's role is to regulate company and financial services and enforce laws to pro ...
– Search ASIC Registers
* Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Datasets
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Australian Business Register
The Australian Business Number (ABN) is a unique 11-digit identifier issued by the Australian Business Register (ABR) which is operated by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The ABN was introduced on 1 July 2000 by John Howard's Liberal govern ...
– Australian Business Number Lookup
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Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) assists the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations in administering the ''Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006'' ("CATSI Act") and in supporting and regulating ...
– Search Corporations
Azerbaijan
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Ministry of Taxes – State Register of Business Entities
* Ministry of Taxes – Businesses engaged in production
Bahamas
* Registrar General's Department
Bangladesh
* Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms
Bahrain
* Ministry of Industry & Commerce
* Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Members Search
*
Central Bank of Bahrain
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) is the central bank of Bahrain. It is a public corporate entity established by the ''Central Bank of Bahrain and Financial Institutions Law 2006.'' It was created on 6 September 2006. ''Decree No. 64 of 2006 with ...
– CBB Register
Barbados
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Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office The Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) is a Barbadian governmental agency in charge of various aspects of industrial property right affairs including: patents, trademarks, and industrial designs. It is a division of the Min ...
– Registrants
Belarus
*Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs —
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
(In Russian)
Belize
* International Business Companies Registry of Belize
Benin
* Ministry of Industry, Trade, Small and Medium Enterprises – Business Registry (''GUFE'')
Bhutan
* Ministry of Economic Affairs (not searchable)
Bolivia
* Registry of Commerce (''Fundempresa'')
Bosnia and Herzegovina
* and
Brčko District
Brčko District ( bs, Brčko Distrikt; hr, Brčko Distrikt; sr, Брчко Дистрикт, ), officially the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Brčko Distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine; hr, Brčko Distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine; ), i ...
:
**Registers of Business Entities
**Registry of Securities – Issuers
* :
**Registers of Business Entities
**Central Registry of Securities – Issuers
Botswana
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Companies and Intellectual Property Authority
Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) is Botswana's registrar of companies and is a government parastatal. It falls under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. All forms of companies (as permitted by Botswana Companies and Intellectual ...
Brazil
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BM&F Bovespa
B3 S.A. - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão (in English, ''B3 - Brazil Stock Exchange and Over-the-Counter Market''), formerly BM&FBOVESPA, is a stock exchange located in São Paulo, Brazil, and the second oldest of the country.
Its current form can be tra ...
– Listed Companies
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Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
– Federal Revenue – Legal entity tax identification number (
CNPJ
The Brazilian National Registry of Legal Entities (Portuguese: ''Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas Jurídicas'', “CNPJ”) is a nationwide registry of corporations, partnerships, foundations, investment funds, and other legal entities, created and ...
) search
* State registries
** Department of Business Registration and Integration (DREI) – Map of commercial registries (''juntas comerciais'')
Brunei
* Brunei Attorney General's Chamber
Burkina Faso
* House of Enterprises (''Maison de l'Entreprise'') – Company search
Burundi
* Investment Promotion Authority (not searchable)
Cambodia
*
Ministry of Commerce A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
Notable examples are:
List
*Algeria: Ministry of Industry and ...
– Business Registration
Cameroon
* Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts (CCIMA) – Company Directory
* Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts (CCIMA) – Database of Industrial Enterprises
* Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Regional Development – Business Directory (''Annuaire des entreprises'')
* National Institute of Statistics – List of companies
Canada
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Corporations Canada
Canadian corporate law concerns the operation of corporations in Canada, which can be established under either federal or provincial authority.
Federal incorporation of for-profit corporations is governed by Corporations Canada under the ''Canada ...
– Search for a Federal Corporation
*Canada's Business Registries
*Provincial and territorial registries
Cape Verde
* Official Gazette
Central African Republic
* Ministry of Commerce and Industry
* Ministry for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises
Chad
* Business Formalities Center of National Agency for Investments and Exports of Chad.
Chile
* Registry of Commerce of Santiago
* Official gazette
* Securities and Insurance Supervisor
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Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
– Directory of Providers
China, People's Republic of
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State Administration for Market Regulation
The State Administration for Market Supervision (SAMR) (), is the ministerial-level agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China
The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Governm ...
* Credit China
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Ministry of Commerce A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
Notable examples are:
List
*Algeria: Ministry of Industry and ...
– Corporate Credit Rating System
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State Administration of Taxation
The State Taxation Administration (STA, Chinese: 国家税务总局) is a ministerial-level department within the government of the People's Republic of China. It is under the direction of the State Council, and is responsible for the collectio ...
– Corporate credit rating inquiry
* Provincial, sub-provincial and municipal registries
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Anhui Province – Anhui Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Hefei
Hefei (; ) is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census and its built-up ( ...
– Hefei Administration for Industry and Commerce
**Beijing – Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Chongqing
Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...
– Chongqing Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Chongqing – Chongqing Enterprise Credit Information System
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Fujian Province – Fujian Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Fujian Province – Fujian Enterprise Credit Information System
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Fuzhou
Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...
– Fuzhou Enterprise Credit Information System
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Xiamen
Xiamen ( , ; ), also known as Amoy (, from Hokkien pronunciation ), is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, ...
– Xiamen Enterprise Credit Information System
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Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
– Gansu Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
– Guangdong Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...
– Guangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
*** Guangzhou – Guangzhou Commercial Registration Information
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Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
– Market Supervision Administration of Shenzhen Municipality
*** Shenzhen – Shenzhen Enterprise Credit Information System
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Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
– Guangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
– Guizhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Guizhou Province – Guizhou Enterprise Credit Information System
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Guiyang
Guiyang (; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), historically rendered as Kweiyang, is the capital of Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in the center of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, ...
– Guiyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Hainan
Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...
– Hainan Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...
– Hebei Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
– Heilongjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Heilongjiang Province – Heilongjiang Enterprise Credit Information System
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Harbin
Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...
– Harbin Enterprise Credit Information System
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Henan
Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...
– Henan Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Hubei
Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...
– Hubei Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Wuhan
Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...
– Wuhan Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
– Hunan Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Hunan Province – Hunan Enterprise Credit Information System
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
– Inner Mongolia Administration for Industry and Commerce
* Inner Mongolia – Inner Mongolia Enterprise Credit Information System
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...
-– Jiangsu Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Wuxi
Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...
– Wuxi Enterprise Credit Information System
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...
– Jiangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Jilin
Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...
– Jilin Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Liaoning
Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...
– Liaoning Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Liaoning Province – Liaoning Enterprise Credit Information System
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Dalian
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...
– Dalian Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Dandong – Dandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Shenyang
Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...
– Shenyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Ningxia
Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in ...
Hui Autonomous Region – Ningxia Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Qinghai
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
– Qinghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...
– Shaanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Shaanxi Province – Shaanxi enterprise credit information system
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Xi'an
Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by #Name, other names, is the list of capitals in China, capital of Shaanxi, Shaanxi Province. A Sub-provincial division#Sub-provincial municipalities, sub-provincial city o ...
– Xi'an Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
– Shandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Dongying
Dongying (), a prefecture-level city, lies on the northern (Bohai Sea) coast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2020 census, 2,193,518 people resided within its administrative area of and 1,188,656 in the built-up area ...
– Dongying Enterprise Credit Information System
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Qingdao
Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...
– Qingdao Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Weihai
Weihai (), formerly called Weihaiwei (), is a prefecture-level city and major seaport in easternmost Shandong province. It borders Yantai to the west and the Yellow Sea to the east, and is the closest Chinese city to South Korea.
Weihai's popula ...
– Weihai Administration for Industry and Commerce
**Shanghai – Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Shanxi
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...
– Shanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
– Sichuan Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Sichuan Province – Sichuan Enterprise Credit Information System
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Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
– Chengdu Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
– Tianjin City Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Binhai
Binhai, officially known as Binhai New Area (), is a sub-provincial district and state-level new area within the jurisdiction of Tianjin Municipality in the People's Republic of China.
Binhai is intended to replicate development seen in She ...
– Binhai company search
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Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...
– Tibet Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
Uyghur Autonomous Region – Xinjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
– Yunnan Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Kunming
Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...
– Kunming Administration for Industry and Commerce
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Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...
– Zhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
** Zhejiang Province – Zhejiang Enterprise Credit Information System
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Hangzhou
Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, whi ...
– Hangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
*** Hangzhou – Hangzhou Enterprise Credit Information System
*Special Administrative Territories
** Hong Kong
*** Hong Kong Integrated Companies Registry Information System (ICRIS) – Companies Register
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Inland Revenue Department – Business Registration Number Enquiry
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Securities and Futures Commission
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong is the independent statutory body charged with regulating the securities and futures markets in Hong Kong. The SFC is responsible for fostering an orderly securities and futures market ...
– Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions
**Macau
***
Government Printing Bureau
*** Directorate of Justice Affairs Services (not searchable)
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
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Ministry of Economic Affairs
**Company Registration Enquiry
**Business registration lists
**Business registration lists (by municipality)
**List of Taiwanese companies in mainland China
**List of Taiwanese companies doing business outside of Taiwan
**List of non-Taiwanese companies registered in Taiwan
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Taiwan Stock Exchange
The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE; ) is a financial institution, located in Taipei 101, in Taipei, Taiwan. The TWSE was established in 1961 and began operating as a stock exchange on 9 February 1962. It is regulated by the Financial ...
– Market Observation Post System
Colombia
* Unified Commercial and Social Registry (''RUES'')
*
Superintendency of Corporations
**Business Check
**''SIREM'' Company Search
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Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia – Comprehensive Stock Market Information System (''SIMEV'')
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
* Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – Business Registry (''Guichet unique'')
Congo, Republic of the
* National Center for Statistics and Economic Studies – "''Base de données''"
* Official gazette
Cook Islands
* Financial Supervisory Commission – Registrar's Office (not searchable)
Costa Rica
* National Registry
* General Directorate Of Taxation (DGT) – Company check
* Government Procurement System – Provider search
Côte d'Ivoire
* Center for Investment Promotion – Company search
Cuba
* National Office of Statistics – Registries
Danish realms
*: Company Registration Authority
*: Greenland Business Register — (language:
Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
)
Djibouti
* Office of Industrial Property and Commerce (ODPIC) – Official Bulletin
Dominica
* Companies and Intellectual Property Office – Name search
Dominican Republic
* Generate Directorate of Internal Revenue (DGII) – Tax-paying companies search
* Generate Directorate of Internal Revenue (DGII) – Companies without operations
* National Office of Industrial Property (ONAPI) – Trade name search
* General Directorate of Public Procurement – Provider search
* Santo Domingo – Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce and Production
Dutch Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean
The Dutch Caribbean (historically known as the Dutch West Indies) are the territories, colonies, and countries, former and current, of the Dutch Empire and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea. They are in the north and south-wes ...
:
*: Aruba Chamber of Commerce and Industry
*: Bonaire Commercial Register
* : Curaçao Chamber of Commerce & Industry
*
**: Sint Eustatius and Saba Commercial Register
**: Sint Eustatius and Saba Commercial Register
**: St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry (not searchable)
Ecuador
* Superintendency of Companies
* Internal Revenue Service (SRI) – Company check
* National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) – Business Directory
* National Secretariat of Policy Management – Directory of Social Organizations
* Official Public Procurement System – Provider search
Egypt
*
Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade
Ministry may refer to:
Government
* Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister
* Ministry (government department), a department of a government
Religion
* Christian ...
– Egyptian International Trade Point
* General Authority for Free Zones and Investment
El Salvador
* National Center of Registries – List of registered businesses
* Official Gazette search
* Salvadoran Institute of Social Security – Solvent companies
* Public Procurement Unit (UNAC) – List of providers
Eritrea
* Ministry of Information – Official journal (''Haddas Ertra'')
Ethiopia
* Ministry of Trade
* Ministry of Tourism
Fiji
* Fiji Government – Companies and Business Registration
Gabon
* Investment Promotion Agency (''Centre de Développement des Entreprises'') (not searchable)
Gambia
* iCommerce Registry
Georgia
* D&B Report Guide Georgia — summary of legal forms and filing requirements. (languages:
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
only)
*Public Registry — (languages: Georgian only)
Ghana
*
Registrar General's Department
* Public Procurement Authority – Registered Suppliers and Contractors
Grenada
* Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property (not searchable)
Guatemala
* Mercantile Registry
* State Procurement System – Provider search
Guinea
* Investment Promotion Agency
Guyana
* Ministry of Legal Affairs – Deeds Registry (not searchable)
* ''
The Official Gazette of Guyana
''The Official Gazette of Guyana'' is the government gazette of Guyana.
The Gazette is believed to have been introduced to Guyana by Dutch colonists in the seventeenth century and until 2012 had no statutory footing in Guyanese law, despite many ...
''
* Georgetown – Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Directory of Members
Haiti
*
Ministry of Commerce and Industry A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
Notable examples are:
List
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– Electronic Commerce Registry
Hong Kong
* Business Registration Office (of the
Inland Revenue Department)
*
Companies Registry
Honduras
* Chamber of Commerce and Industry
* Executive Directorate of Income – company tax identification code (''RTN'') check
* State Office Procurement (ONCAE) – Provider search
India
*
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is an Indian government ministry primarily concerned with administration of the Companies Act 2013, the Companies Act 1956, the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2 ...
– Find Company/LLP
Indonesia
* Ministry of Industry – Industrial Company Directory
* Ministry of Trade – Corporate Directory
* Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN)
* Indonesia Charter bus – Transportation
Iran
*
Iranian Judiciary System
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
- under (SSAA) Legal Entities National ID Portal Official Journal (RRK) older archived url https://web.archive.org/web/gazette.ir
* Official Journal (Dastour)
* Tehran – Tehran Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Mines – Trade Directory
Iraq
*
Ministry of Trade – Iraq Registrar of Companies
* Baghdad – Chamber of Commerce – Companies Search
* Erbil – Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Companies List
Israel
*
Justice Ministry
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a v ...
– Israeli Corporations Authority
* Justice Ministry – Israeli Corporations Authority – Additional details available in company extract
*
Israel Securities Authority
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) is the national securities regulator of Israel. Established by law in 1968, the Israel Securities Authority sees its mandate as a way to ensure an efficient capital market based on transparency and fairness. ...
– List of Public Companies
*
Ministry of Construction – Contractors Registrar
Jamaica
* Office of the Registrar of Companies
* National Contracts Commission – Registered Contractors
Japan
*
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The or METI, is a ministry of the Government of Japan. It was created by the 2001 Central Government Reform when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) merged with agencies from other ministries related to economic activities, ...
– Company Search
Jordan
* Companies Control Department
* Ministry of Industry and Trade – Trade Names
*
Securities Depository Center – Public Shareholding Companies
Kazakhstan
* Ministry of Justice – Database of legal entities
* State Revenue Committee – Legal entities
* Business Licenses
Kenya
* State Law Office – Registrar General (not searchable)
* National Construction Authority – Registered Contractors
Kiribati
* Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives (not searchable)
Kosovo
* Ministry of Trade and Industry – Business Registration Agency
Kuwait
*
Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Company Search
*
Kuwait Stock Exchange
Boursa Kuwait Securities Co., is the private-sector corporate owner and operator of the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), the national stock market of Kuwait.
History
Although several share holding companies (such as National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) in ...
– Listed Companies
Kyrgyzstan
* Ministry of Justice – Register of Legal Entities
Laos
*
Ministry of Industry and Commerce – Registered Enterprises
Lebanon
*
Investment Development Authority of Lebanon
The Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (IDAL) is the national investment promotion agency of Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a countr ...
Lesotho
* Ministry of Trade, Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing
Liberia
* Liberia Business Registry
Libya
* Libyan Commercial Registry. Available only for Libyan residents after registration.
Madagascar
* Economic Development Board of Madagascar – List of companies
* General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) – Taxable entity search
Malawi
* Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs – Registrar General (not searchable)
Malaysia
*
Companies Commission of Malaysia
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 ...
– Company search
*
Labuan
Labuan (), officially the Federal Territory of Labuan ( ms, Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan), is a Federal Territory of Malaysia. Its territory includes and six smaller islands, off the coast of the state of Sabah in East Malaysia. Labuan's capit ...
– Labuan Financial Services Authority
Maldives
* Ministry of Economic Development
Mali
* Investment Promotion Agency
Marshall Islands
* Marshall Islands Maritime & Corporate Administrators
Mauritania
* Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture (Click on "''Répertoires des entreprises''")
Mauritius
*
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development – Corporate and Business Registration Department
Mexico
*
Secretariat of Economy
**National Business Information Registry (SIEM)
**Company name search
**Integrated System of Registry Management (SIGER) – list of all state and municipal commercial registries
*
Mexican Institute of Industrial Property – Trade name search
* Registry of Suppliers and Contractors (RUPC)
*
ProMéxico – Directory of Exporters
* State registries
Micronesia, Federated States of
* Registrar of Companies – Listing of FSM Corporations
Moldova
* Licensing Chamber
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
**State Registration Chamber
**State Register of non-profit Organizations
* State Tax Service
**Taxable entity search – search by Unique State Identification Number (IDNO)
**List of taxable entities
Monaco
* Registry of Commerce and Industry
Montenegro
* Central Registry of Business Entities
*
Montenegro Stock Exchange
The Montenegro Stock Exchange (MNSE) ( Montenegrin: ''Montenegroberza AD'') is a stock exchange located in Podgorica, Montenegro. It is Montenegro's only stock exchange.
The MNSE was founded 1993, and is a member of the World Federation of Exchan ...
– Company search
Mongolia
* General Authority for State Registration
Morocco
* Central Trade Registry (OMPIC)
* Central Trade Registry (OMPIC)
* Financial Markets Authority (CDVM) – Listed Companies
*
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Fès
Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...
– Register of Commerce
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Marrakech
Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Meknès
Meknes ( ar, مكناس, maknās, ; ber, ⴰⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ, amknas; french: Meknès) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Oujda
Oujda ( ar, وجدة; ber, ⵡⵓⵊⴷⴰ, Wujda) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people. It ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Salé
Salé ( ar, سلا, salā, ; ber, ⵙⵍⴰ, sla) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town. Founded in about 1030 by the Banu Ifran ...
– Register of Commerce
*
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...
– Register of Commerce
Mozambique
* Bulletin of the Republic
Myanmar
*
Namibia
* Business and Intellectual Property Authority
Nauru
* Registrar of Corporations
Nepal
* Office of Company Registrar
New Zealand
*
Companies Office – Search for companies, company directors or shareholders
Nicaragua
* Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade
* General Revenue Service (DGI) – Business search
* General Directorate of State Procurement – Provider search
Niger
* National Institute of Statistics – Directory of Companies
Nigeria
*
Corporate Affairs Commission Corporate Affairs Commission is a body of the Nigerian Government responsible for the regulation and management of companies in Nigeria. It was introduced in 1990 with the passing of the Companies and Allied Matters Act. It is headed by a chairman a ...
* Bureau of Public Procurement – Registered Contractors
Niue
* Companies Office of Niue
North Macedonia
* Central Registry
* Securities and Exchange Commission – Registry of joint stock companies
Oman
*
Ministry of Commerce and Industry A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
Notable examples are:
List
*Algeria: Ministry of Industry and ...
– Search Company Listings
* Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Trade Directory
Pakistan
*
Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) ( ur, ) is the financial regulatory agency in Pakistan whose objective is to develop a modern and efficient corporate sector and a capital market based on sound authority principles, in ...
– Company Name Search
Palau
* Office of the Attorney General – Registrar of Corporations (not searchable)
Palestine
* Ministry of National Economy – Companies Registry
Panama
* Public Registry of Panama
* Panadata
Papua New Guinea
* Investment Promotion Authority – Entity Search
Paraguay
* Ministry of Finance – Taxable entity search
* Undersecretary of State Taxation (SET) – company tax identification number (''RUC'') check
* National Directorate of Public Procurement – Provider search
Peru
* National Superintendency of Public Registries (SUNARP)
* National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT)
* National Superintendency for Banks, Insurance Companies and Pension Fund Administrators (SBS)
* National Superintendency for the Securities Market (SMV) - Supervised companies search
* Supervisory Agency for State Contracts (OSCE) – Provider search
Philippines
*
Department of Trade and Industry – Business Name Registration System
Qatar
* Ministry of Business and Trade – Companies Control Department (''Hukoomi'')
*
Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Qatar Chamber ( ar, غرفة قطر) was founded in 1963 as the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( ar, غرفة تجارة وصناعة قطر) to promote and protect the interests of companies in the agricultural, industrial and commerc ...
– Business Directory
*
Qatar Financial Centre Authority – Public Register
Russia
*
Federal Tax Service – Unified State Register of Legal Entities
* National Classifier of Enterprises and Organizations
Rwanda
* Office of the Registrar General (ORG)
* Rwanda Revenue Authority – VAT Registered Taxpayers
San Marino
* Trade Register
Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Financial Services Regulatory Commission – Registrar of Companies
* Nevis Financial Regulatory Services Commission
Saint Lucia
* Registry of Companies and Intellectual Property (ROCIP)
* Registry of International Business Companies and International Trusts (Pinnacle)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Commerce and Intellectual Property Office
Samoa
* Samoa Business Registry
São Tomé and Príncipe
* Ministry of Justice – Company Registry
Saudi Arabia
* Ministry of Commerce and Industry
*
Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority
The Ministry of Investment (MISA) (), till 2020 as the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) (), is a government ministry in Saudi Arabia that oversees foreign investment in the country besides issuing licenses to foreign investors. I ...
– License Search
*
Riyadh
Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the R ...
– Riyadh Chamber of Commerce & Industry
* Jeddah –
Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry
The Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI) is the chamber of commerce in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
JCCI is one of the oldest business and services organizations in Saudi Arabia. It was established by a royal decree dated January 19 ...
– Business Directory
Senegal
* Business Creation Support Bureau
Serbia
* Serbian Business Registers Agency — runs three registers. (languages:
Serbian)
**Business Register — business entities and entrepreneurs
**Register of Pledges over Movable Property and Rights
**Register of Financial Leasing
*Central Securities Depository and Clearing House — includes ownership structure of companies
* Public Company Register — maintained by the Securities Commission. (languages: Serbian)
* Lists of Providers of Financial Services (
National Bank of Serbia
The National Bank of Serbia ( sr, Народна банка Србије, Narodna banka Srbije) is the central bank of Serbia. Founded in 1884, the responsibilities of the bank are: monetary policy, sole issuer of Serbian banknotes and coins, p ...
)
Seychelles
* Seychelles Business Register (onshore companies only)
* Seychelles Financial Services Authority (not searchable)
Sierra Leone
* Office of the Administrator and Registrar General
Singapore
*
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority
The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Singapore. ACRA is the regulator of business registration, financial reporting, public accountants and corporate ser ...
– Entity search
*
Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Singapore in charge of tax collection.
History
Early beginnings
The Singapore Income Tax Department was created in 1947 t ...
– GST Registered Business Search
*
Monetary Authority of Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is the central bank and financial regulatory authority of Singapore. It administers the various statutes pertaining to money, banking, insurance, securities and the financial sector in general, as well ...
– Financial Institutions Directory
Solomon Islands
* Solomon Islands Business Registry
South Africa
*
Companies and Intellectual Property Commission
The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry in South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is boun ...
(CIPC)
South Korea
* Start-Biz Online
*
Small and Medium Business Administration
The Small and Medium Business Administration (, SMBA) was one of a small and medium industry organizations in South Korea and is run under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The headquarters are in Seo District, Daejeon
Daejeon () is ...
*
Supreme Court
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...
– Registry
*
Financial Supervisory Service – Repository of Korea's Corporate Filings
South Sudan
*
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
– Business Registry (not searchable)
Sri Lanka
* Department of Registrar of Companies
Sudan
* Ministry of Justice – Commercial Registrations Department
Suriname
* Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Swaziland
*
Switzerland
— Swiss company registers are organized at
cantonal
The 26 cantons of Switzerland (german: Kanton; french: canton ; it, cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: ; Vallader and Puter: ; Sutsilvan: ; Rumantsch Grischun: ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Con ...
level. (There are currently around 45 cantonal commercial registers in Switzerland.)
* Central Business Names Index (''Zefix'') — maintained by the Federal Commercial Registry Office. Contains information of corporate bodies (corporations, corporations with unlimited partners, limited liability companies, co-operatives, non-profit associations and foundations) and public-law corporations registered in the Commercial Register.
(languages: English, French, German, Italian)
** Swiss Commercial Gazette (SHAB) — official
gazette
A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper.
In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name ''Gazette'' since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers ...
that publishes new entries and changes in the commercial register.
Tajikistan
* Tax Committee – Register of Legal Entities
Tanzania
* Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA)
Thailand
*
Ministry of Commerce A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
Notable examples are:
List
*Algeria: Ministry of Industry and ...
– Department of Business Development
Timor-Leste
* Institute for Business Support – Enterprises
* Service Registry and Company Verification (not yet searchable)
* Official Gazette
Tonga
* Business Registries Office
Togo
* Business Start-up Center
Tunisia
* Registry of Commerce
* Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation – Directory of industrial enterprises
Turkey
*
Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Odalar ve Borsalar Birliği, TOBB for short) is a confederation of all local chambers of commerce, industry and maritime as well as commodity exchanges in Turkey. The union wa ...
– Turkish Trade Registry Gazette
* Central Registration System (MERSİS)
* Turkish Standards Institution – Company Search
*
Adana
Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana Province, Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million.
Adana lies in the heart ...
– Adana Chamber of Commerce – Trade Name Search
*
Aksaray
Aksaray (, Koine Greek: Ἀρχελαΐς ''Arhelays'', Medieval Greek: Κολώνεια ''Koloneya'', Ancient Greek: Γαρσάουρα ''Garsaura'') is a city in the Central Anatolia Region, Turkey, Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the ca ...
– Aksaray Chamber of Commerce
*
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
– Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Search for Member Companies
*
Gaziantep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...
– Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce – Member Search
*
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
– Istanbul Chamber of Commerce – Company Search
*
Konya
Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...
– Konya Chamber of Commerce – Company Directory
*
Mersin
Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...
– Mersin Chamber of Commerce
Trinidad and Tobago
* Companies Registry
*
Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission
The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission (TTSEC) is the sole regulator of the securities industry in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The Commission came into being as a result of the proclamation of the Securities Industry Ac ...
– Registered Companies, Individuals & Securities
Uganda
* Uganda Registration Services Bureau
* Register of Providers
Ukraine
* State Enterprise Information Resource Centre () — official, searchable companies register for Ukraine. (languages: Ukrainian only)
*
State Fiscal Service:
** Business Search — (languages: Ukrainian only)
** Register of VAT payers — (languages: Ukrainian only)
** Register of Fixed (or single) tax payers — (languages: Ukrainian only)
* State Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets:
**Integrated Information System — (languages: Ukrainian only)
**Other registers — (languages: Ukrainian only)
* Unified Register of Civic Organizations — maintained by the
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia)
* Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Just ...
United Arab Emirates
*
Ministry of Economy – Business Name Search
*
Securities and Commodities Authority
The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) is a federal financial regulatory agency in the United Arab Emirates. It was established based on Federal Decree No. (4) of 2000 by then-president of the UAE, Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and it's a ...
– Company Details
*
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
...
– Department of Economic Development – Trade Name Search
* Abu Dhabi – Abu Dhabi Business Center – Business License Search
* Abu Dhabi – Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Commercial Directory
* Abu Dhabi –
Abu Dhabi Global Market
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is an international financial centre and free zone located on Al Maryah Island in the United Arab Emirates's capital, Abu Dhabi. The financial centre was established in 2013 and became fully operational in Octobe ...
Registration Authority
* Abu Dhabi –
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (A.D.X.; formerly Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM); ar, سوق أبو ظبي للأوراق المالية) is a stock exchange in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Listed companies by sector
List provided by ...
– Listed Companies
*
Ajman
Ajman ( ar, عجمان, '; Gulf Arabic: عيمان ʿymān) is the capital of the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates. It is the fifth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Al Ain. Located along the Persian Gulf, it is ...
– Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Commercial Search
* Ajman – Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Industrial Search
* Ajman –
Ajman Free Zone Ajman Free Zone (AFZA) ( ar, منطقه عجمان الحره) is a free trade zone in Ajman, United Arab Emirates (UAE). First established in 1988, it is one of a number of unbonded free zones in the UAE offering offshore company setup and operati ...
– Directory
*
Dubai
Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
– Department of Economic Development – Trade Name Search
* Dubai –
Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Established in 1965, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry ( ar, غرفة تجارة وصناعة دبي, Ghurfet tijar'a wa sina'aht Dubayy), or simply the Dubai Chamber ( ar, غرفة دبي, Ghurfet Dubayy), is a public non-profit organizat ...
– Commercial Directory
* Dubai –
Dubai Financial Market
The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) ( ar, سوق دبي المالي) is a stock exchange located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was founded on 26 March 2000.
Overview
, there are 67 companies listed on DFM. Most of them are UAE-based companie ...
– Listed Companies
* Dubai –
Dubai Financial Services Authority
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) is the financial regulatory agency of the special economic zone, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), In Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is distinct from the UAE's federal Securities and Co ...
– Public Register
* Dubai –
Dubai International Financial Centre
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is a special economic zone in Dubai covering , established in 2004 as a financial hub for companies operating throughout the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) markets. DIFC is regulated by ...
– Client Directory
* Dubai –
Dubai Airport Freezone
Dubai Airport Freezone (commonly abbreviated as DAFZ) is a free economic zone in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, providing company formation and business setup services in Dubai.
DAFZ enables the following types of company formations:
...
– Directory
* Dubai –
Jebel Ali Free Zone
Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza; Arabic: (جافزا) المنطقة الحرّة لجبل علي al-Munṭaqa al-Ḥurra le Jabal ʿAlī) is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, nea ...
– Client Directory
* Dubai –
Dubai Internet City
Dubai Internet City (DIC) ( ar, مدينة دبي للإنترنت) is an information technology and business park created by the Government of Dubai as a free economic zone and a strategic base for companies targeting regional emerging markets ...
– Partners Directory
* Dubai –
Dubai Knowledge Village
Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), informally known as Academic City, is a university town in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates along the Dubai-Al Ain Road. The project was launched in May 2006 in liaison with Dubai Knowledge Park. T ...
– Partners Directory
* Dubai –
NASDAQ Dubai – Listed Companies
*
Fujairah
Fujairah City ( ar, الفجيرة) is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is the seventh-largest city in UAE, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). It is the only Emirati capital city on the ...
– Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Business Directory
* Fujairah – Fujairah Free Zone – Company Listing
*
Ras Al Khaimah
Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) ( ar, رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة, historically Julfar) is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It is the sixth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al Ain ...
–
Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority
Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) is a United Arab Emirates investment authority in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. It issues licenses to operate within RAKIA owned special economic zones, provides business facilities and warehouses and p ...
*
Sharjah
Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.
Sharjah is the capital o ...
– Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Business Directory
* Sharjah –
Hamriyah Free Zone
The Hamriyah Free Zone is a free zone place in the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Established by an Emiri decree in November, 1995, the Free Zone is 24 square kilometers in size and has a 14 meter deep port and 7 meter deep inner ...
– Directory
* Sharjah – Sharjah Airport International Free Zone – Investor Directory
*
Umm al-Quwain
Umm Al Quwain is the capital and largest city of the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates.
The city is located on the peninsula of Khor Al Bidiyah, with the nearest major cities being Sharjah to the southwest and Ras Al Khaimah ...
– Chamber of Commerce and Industry
United Kingdom
*
**
Companies House
Companies House is the executive agency of the company registrars of the United Kingdom, falling under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. All forms of companies (as permitted by the Companies Act) are i ...
— the official UK body to which
UK companies must send their accounts.
Companies House has two ways to search for company and director information:
***WebCHeck
***Disqualified Directors Register
** Financial Services Register (
Financial Conduct Authority
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a financial regulation, financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry. The ...
)
*
British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), also known as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), are fourteen dependent territory, territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remna ...
** : Anguilla Financial Services — Anguilla Commercial Online Registration Network (ACORN)
** : Registrar of Companies
** :
Financial Services Commission — Registry of Corporate Affairs (not searchable)
** :
*** General Registry (subscription)
***
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands and supervises its currency board.
The CIMA manages the Cayman Islands currency, regulates and supervises financial services, provide ...
— Search for Entities
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*** Companies House Gibraltar
** : Financial Services Commission — not searchable
** : Financial Services Commission, companies registry — not searchable
*
Crown Dependencies
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*** Guernsey Registry — includes the Bailiwick of Guernsey Intellectual Property Office which administers all trademark and design registrations and activities, and provides information on the intellectual property laws enacted in the
Bailiwick
A bailiwick () is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ. The bailiwick is probably modelled on th ...
.
**
*** The Companies Registry — responsible for the regulation of
Manx companies, as well as the administration of legislation relating to foreign companies, limited liability companies, business names, limited partnerships, and societies incorporated under the ''Industrial and Building Societies Acts''. It is part of the
Isle of Man Government
The Isle of Man Government ( gv, Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man. The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, the personal representative of Charles III. The executive head is the Chief M ...
. There is a searchable directory.
**
*** JFSC Companies Registry — maintained by the
Jersey Financial Services Commission.
United States
*
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The primary purpose of the SEC is to enforce the law against market ...
– Search for Company Filings
* State registries
*District/Territorial registries
+*
District of Columbia
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–
Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs – Corporations Division
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Guam
Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...
– Department of Revenue and Taxation – General Licensing and Registration Branch (not searchable)
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Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...
– Department of Commerce – Registrar of Corporation (not searchable)
**
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
–
Puerto Rico Department of State
The Department of State of Puerto Rico was created in July 1952 and is responsible of promoting the cultural, political, and economical relations between Puerto Rico, other jurisdictions of the United States and foreign countries.
History
The ...
– Corporations Search
**
United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory ...
– Division of Corporations and Trademarks
Uruguay
* Agency for Development of Electronic Government and Society of Information and Knowledge (AGESIC) – Incorporated businesses (''e-Diario'')
* Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining – Directory of Industrial Enterprises
* National Institute of Statistics – Directory of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
* Official Gazette search
* State Purchasing and Contracting Agency – Provider search
* Investment and Export Promotion Institute – Directory of Exporters
Uzbekistan
* Registration of limited, stock and other types of the companies are made on municipal level. Online registration of companies and register is available in the center of state services Bir Darcha.
Vanuatu
*
Vanuatu Financial Services Commission
Venezuela
* National Procurement Service (RNC) – Registered government contractor search
*
SENIAT SENIAT (''Servicio Nacional Integrado de Administración Aduanera y Tributaria''–- National Integrated Service for the Administration of Customs Duties and Taxes) is Venezuela's revenue service
A revenue service, revenue agency or taxation ...
– company tax identification code (''RIF'') check
* Supreme Tribunal of Justice – Official Gazette
* Autonomous Registries and Notaries Service (not searchable)
Vietnam
*
Ministry of Planning and Investment – Agency of Business Registration
*
Ministry of Planning and Investment – E-gazette search
*
Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
Lists of current ministries of finance
Named "Ministry"
* Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
* Ministry of Finance and Ec ...
– General Department of Taxation – Taxpayer Directory
Yemen
* Ministry of Industry and Trade
Zambia
* Patents and Companies Registration Agency
* Zambia Revenue Authority – Taxpayer Search (Click on "Other e-Services")
Zimbabwe
* Department of Deeds, Companies & Intellectual Property
Other
* the
European Business Register Network
The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several European countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the ...
(EBR) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities in most of the
European countries
The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the regions of Europe, various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political. Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, ...
See also
*
Legal Entity Identifier
*
Statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register ...
*
Corporate Registers Forum
The Corporate Registers Forum is an association grouping the corporate registries among the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The membership is open to government agencies and their officials responsible for the administration of body cor ...
*
European business register
The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several European countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the f ...
*
OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates is a website that shares data on corporations under the copyleft Open Database License. The company was launched on 20 December 2010, by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon.
Recognition
In 2011, the site won third place in the O ...
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List of financial regulatory authorities by country
The following is an incomplete list of financial regulatory authorities by country.
List
A-B
* Afghanistan - Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB)
* Albania - Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)
* Algeria - Commission d'Organisation et de ...
*
List of offshore financial centres
An offshore financial centre (OFC) is defined as a "country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy."
"Offshore" does not refer ...
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List of stock exchanges
This is a list of major stock exchanges. Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts are listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges.
There are sixteen stock exchanges in the world ...
References
External links
European Commission – Business registers in Member StatesInvestigative Dashboard – External Databases*
Global Open Data Index – Company RegisterOpenCorporates.com – All company registers
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Corporate law
Corporation-related lists
Public records
Government databases
Economics lists by country
Registrars of companies