List of official business registers

Types of registers

• company register — a register of legal entities in the jurisdiction they operate under, for the purpose of establishing, dissolving, acquisition of legal capacity and 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 organisation, usually maintained by a counter-intelligence service.
• statistical business register — plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.

• 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 register — an official register of businesses in difficulties which received aid from the state.
• ultimate beneficial owner register — an official repository of natural person or persons who ultimately own or control a company, maintained to counteract money laundering and terrorist financing.
• land and mortgage register — concerns titles, rights, and liabilities related to real estate, consisting of premises specified in a cadaster, such as land, buildings, or condominium units,
• cadaster — determines the geospatial localization, the extent, and the value of premises, including land parcels, buildings, and condominium units, which together form real estate, subject to rights and liabilities registered in a land and mortgage register,
• vehicle register — includes entries containing data on vehicle identification number, vehicle registration plate number, vehicle title, type approval, vehicle inspections, liability insurance, as well as vehicle liens, such as maritime liens, and which sometimes may be connected to a register of pledges or tax liens.
• register of pledges — includes entries concerning liabilities of a pledgor to a creditor, secured by tying them to a pledgor's collateral, such as a movable, a security, or an intellectual property right.
• industrial property register — an official database containing registered trade marks, as well as patented inventions, industrial designs, utility models, or integrated circuits, thus protecting and reserving the rights of the company which developed them or bought rights to them.
• plant breeders’ rights register — registers rights to a protected plant variety, developed and registered by a plant breeder.

• tax register — a register used for the purpose of revenue collection, including taxes, duties such as tariffs or excise, as well as mandatory social insurance and health insurance contributions; such a register includes all taxable entities, as well as their tax liabilities, including tax liens.
• public company and securities 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, 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 or an alternative trading system for the purpose of trading and quoting companies’ stocks.
• insolvency register — contains information on companies who entered insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, administration, receivership, debt restructuring, or have been under futile execution, either of an administrative debt or of a private debt, 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.

  European Union and the European Economic Area

• company registers
• * European Commission - the Business Registers Interconnection System ; List of European Research Infrastructure Consortia
• * European Committee of the Regions - Register of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation
• * the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations - Register of European political parties and European political foundations
• tax registers
• * VAT Information Exchange System - taxpayers who obtained registration allowing to perform intra-community supply transactions; not mandatory for VAT-exempt entities involved in intra-community supply transactions of low worth in the given year, unless they do not perform services by delegating their employees to another EU country
• * System of Exchange of Excise Data -
• * Registered Exporter System
• * Economic Operator Identification and Registration System –
• * Economic Operator Systems Authorized Economic Operator – Authorized Economic Operator Database
• vehicle registers
• * EU Fleet Register - registry of maritime commercial vessels used in fisheries within the Common Fisheries Policy
• * '''EUCARIS'''

  Austria

• Wiener Zeitung '''' — the official gazette.
• Firmenbuch — the searchable database.
• Financial Market Authority — has searchable database for companies that hold FMA-issued licenses.

  Belgium

• KBO Public Search — searchable database for public information on every registered active enterprise and establishment in Belgium.
• Central Balance Sheet Office — has the accounts of companies, associations, and foundations active in Belgium.
• Crossroads Bank for Enterprises
• Enterprise Search — maintained by the Federal Public Service Justice
• Public companies register — maintained by the Financial Services and Markets Authority

  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.
• D&B Report Guide Bulgaria — information on the different types of companies
• Trade Register

  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 Biznet.
• D&B Report Guide Croatia — provides information on legal forms and filing requirements.
• Croatian Company Directory
• Business Register — maintained by the Ministry of Justice.
• Export Directory — maintained by the Chamber of Economy.

  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.

  Czech Republic

• Public register and the collection of documents — maintained by the Ministry of Justice.
• Register of economic entities — maintained by the Ministry of Finance
• Trade Licensing Register — maintained by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

  Denmark

• Central Business Register — the official registry of Danish businesses.
• Danish Commerce and Companies Agency — former administrator of the Central Business Register, since a reorganization in 2012 a part of the Danish Business Authority.
• Financial Supervisory Authority — supervisory agency which administers a database of enterprises under increased supervision.

  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.

  Finland

• Finnish Trade Register — official company register for Finnish companies, maintained by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
• 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.
• Sirene — statistical business register maintained by INSEE.
• Bulletin of Obligatory Legal Announcements — maintained by Journal officiel de la République française.
• Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements — publishes companies registered in the RCS.
• : Paris Registry — maintained by the Clerk of the Commercial Court of Paris