List of official business registers
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. In some cases, it may also be devolved to self-governing bodies, either commercial or professional ; or to a dedicated, highly regulated company.
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 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.Another group of business registers is focused on various assets 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 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.
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 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 trading system">Stock trading">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
Germany
- German Commercial Register — judicial register of the federal states.
- Business Register System — centralized statistical business register.
- Federal Financial Supervisory Authority — listed companies.
Greece
- General Commercial Registry
- Official gazette – Company search
- Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Hungary
- Court of Company Registration — provides company information and electronic company registration service. It is maintained by the Ministry of Justice.
- Cégtaláló — searchable database.
- Financial Services Register — maintained by the Hungarian National Bank, also provides supervision of listed companies on Budapest Stock Exchange
Iceland
- Company Directory —
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.
- Infocamere — company register of the Italian Chambers of Commerce. Information can be obtained from Infocamere and via the European Business Register.
- Infoimprese —
- Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa 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, and annual accounts. The information is based on original documents of the State Register of Enterprises.
Liechtenstein
- Commercial Register — maintained by the Office of Justice.
Lithuania
- Register of Legal Entities
Azerbaijan
- under Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan|the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan] is the state body that registers companies in Azerbaijan. Foreign individuals and foreign companies have equal rights to register their companies, just like local individuals and local companies in Azerbaijan.
Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Business Registers
- Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés — the official register of companies and associations in Luxembourg.
- Business permits
- Official Gazette "Mémorial C"
- Supervised entities
Malta
- Malta Business Registry — registry of companies
Netherlands
- Trade Register — company search, maintained by Kamer van Koophandel. In the Netherlands, registration in the trade register is compulsory for almost every company.
Norway
- Brønnøysund Register Centre — government body under the [Ministry of Trade and Industry (Norway)|Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry], and consists of several different national EDP registers.
- Registry of supervised entities
Poland
Regular company registers
There are two registers of entities which are obligated or allowed to register as entrepreneurs:- Ministry of Development – Central Registration and Information on Business '' – company register for natural persons trading as sole traders or their civil law partnerships ; such companies are prohibited from performing certain activities, and proper agricultural activity of an individual farmer is also excluded from registration in CEIDG; the register does not assign its own registration number, using the NIP for this purpose instead
- Ministry of Justice :
- *National Court Register — register of the majority of juridical persons types, a well as other collective legal entities ; assigns a registration number, mandatory to be exposed on all outbound company documents and letters; some activities 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 ; its constituent parts are:
- ** Register of Entrepreneurs — the company register for entities other than natural persons which hold an obligatory status of entrepreneurs: trade partnerships: either entities with legal capacity but lacking juridical personality, or juridical persons, 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 if they intend to perform business activities
- ** Register of Associations, Other Social and Professional Organizations, Foundations and Stand-alone Public Healthcare Institutions — the other part of the KRS, is responsible for the registration of various other types of juridical persons. If any of the registered entities intend to perform business activities, it also has to obtain registration in the Register of Entrepreneurs; in addition, juridical persons or any other legal entities also have to register, if they apply for the status of an officially recognized charity ; however, as an exception, registration solely for that purpose neither confers juridical personality to entities lacking one nor does it create an obligation or right to register as an entrepreneur;
- * Court and Commercial Gazette – official gazette ;
- * Financial document viewer - the official free viewer of financial documents that allows downloading 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 :- Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture – National Register of the Rural Women's Associations ;Register of Producers, Agricultural Holdings and Applications for Payment Entitlements - ;
- Polish Waters National Water Management Holding – IT system for protection against extraordinary hazards – Informatics System for Water Management – water cadaster, which includes the centralized register of water corporations, levee unions and the unions of water companies or levee unions
- Central Office of Geodesy and Cartography – 'Land and Buildings Records – land and buildings cadaster, which includes the centralized register of common land management corporations
- Polish Hunting Association – 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 – Register of Research Institutes
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education – Register of Higher Education Institutions – includes both public and private institutions
- Ministry of National Education – Register of Schools and Educational Institutions – includes also the jednostki systemu oświaty
- Ministry of Interior and Administration – register of inter-municipal unions, inter-county unions, as well as cross-category unions of municipalities and counties, ; Database of Territorial Self-Government Units, ; Register of Churches and Other Confessional Communities, ;
- Ministry of Justice - List of judicial enforcement officers ,, 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 – Central Register of Forms of Environmental Protection – includes the register of national parks, available as a search engine, or a GIS/cadaster,
- Bureau for Forest Management and Geodesy 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,
- District Court in Warsaw – Register of Political Parties ; Register of Pension Funds ; Register of Investment Funds ;
- District Court in Piotrków Trybunalski – Register of Family Foundations
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs – List of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation registered in Poland
- 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
- a central register of public cultural institutions. Each of the actual or potential parent entities 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, available on website of each of the parent entities;
- a register of homeowner communities
- a register of common land communities
Other general official business registers
- Ministry of Justice :
- *National Register of the Indebted — insolvency register separate from the KRS, designed to include entries on insolvent debtors: either private natural persons, entrepreneurs, or any other legal entities, regardless whether they are registered in the National Court Register or the Central Registration and Information on Business ;
- * Register of Pledges – allows to submit an inquiry concerning registered pledges and voluntary specific liens put on a collateral, either a movable, such as a vehicle, other types of machines, a controlled weapon, a movable object of cultural property, 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 – contains official and legally binding entries on real estate rights, obligations, as well as warnings concerning unsettled or ongoing claims, any detected outdated entries, or any detected discrepancies with the referenced relevant Land and Buildings Records entry – search by the register number ;
- * National Criminal Register – contains entries on all entities convicted and sentenced for a felony or crime, or for a fiscal felony or crime, either natural persons, or juridical persons or other collective legal entities ;
- Central Office of Geodesy and Cartography – Geoportal – provides access to the:
- * Land and Buildings Records – the official cadaster of land, buildings, and owner-occupancies,
- * Geodetic Records of Utilities Networks – the official cadaster of utilities networks,
- Ministry of Finance – Central Register of Beneficial Owners – a register of ultimate beneficial owners National Fiscal Administration
- * Central Register of Entities – National Register of Taxpayers – tax register which assigns the Tax Identification Number 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 instead of NIP for tax purposes. It is mandatory to include both seller's and buyer's NIP on all invoices ; its validation is available online ;
- ** List of VAT Taxpayers – list of registered, unregistered and deleted entities and restored to the VAT register ;
- *** 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-community 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 – Electronic Services Portal of the Tax and Customs Service – assigns the IDSISC number for customs or excise purposes, and provides access to the:
- ** Central Register of Excise Entities – confirms granting of excise authorization to excise entities, supplies their data to the EU Excise Movement and Control System through the System for the Exchange of Excise Data, and registers their IDSISC number in the SEED PL database, IDSISC number validation is also available on the website operated by the EU
- ** Registered Exporter System – registered Polish entities, REX number validation oś also available on the website operated by the EU
- ** Economic Operator Identification and Registration System – EORI number validation is available on the website operated by the EU
- ** Economic Operator Systems Authorized Economic Operator Database – Authorized Economic Operator Database is available on the website operated by the EU
- * Register of Tax Liens – register of tax liens put on a collateral, either a movable, such as a vehicle, other types of machines, a firearm, a movable object of cultural property, or on a security, as well as on an intellectual property right; ;
- Polish Social Insurance Institution – Central Register of Contribution Payers – tax register of all entities paying compulsory social and health insurance contributions for their employees, as well as natural persons obligated to pay social and/or health insurance contributions for themselves, 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 for identification purposes instead;
- Agricultural Social Insurance Fund - Register of Agricultural Social Insurance and Health Insurance Contribution Payers – 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 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 system.
- Central Statistical Office – National Official Business Register – statistical business register which assigns the Statistical Identification Number 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 ;
- Intellectual property registers
- * Patent Office of the Republic of Poland – Patent Office Registries e-Search industrial property database which includes trade marks, industrial designs, utility models, and integrated circuits, as well as inventions, and European patents, including the EU unitary patents
- * Research Centre for Cultivar Testing – 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, does not include the varieties registered by the Community Plant Variety Office ; List of breeders, breeders’ representatives and licensees ; ;
- Official vehicle registries
- * Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland – Central Registry of Vehicles and Drivers
- ** Central Registry of Vehicles – contains data on all registered road vehicles. Vehicle History service
- * Office of Rail Transport – National Rail Vehicle Registry ;
- * Civil Aviation Authority – Register of Civil Aircraft ;
- * Registries of vessels :
- ** Ministry of Infrastructure – Registry of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 m in Length – responsible for the registration of following vessels up to 24 meters in length: all yachts ; inland or maritime non-commercial yachts; inland or maritime commercial yachts up to 12 passengers ; 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 – 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 – Registry of Fishing Vessels – registry of Polish maritime commercial vessels used in fisheries within the Common Fisheries Policy
- ** Maritime Chambers: by the District Court in Szczecin and by the District Court in Gdańsk – Registry of Ships – the primary official registry of all maritime ships used in international traffic and owned by Polish entities or other EU entities, 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. May also contain entries 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 ;
- ** Maritime Offices: in Szczecin and in Gdynia: Administrative Registry of Maritime Ships – obligatory registry for maritime ships exempt from registration in the ordinary Registry of Ships – 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 – Public Aid Data Sharing System
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – Directory of Common Agricultural Policy Beneficiaries
- Public Procurement Office – e-Zamówienia Platform
- National Institute of Cultural Heritage - Registry of Cultural Property - operated by the Voivodeship Offices for Cultural Property Protection, include immovable, archeological, and movable cultural property, 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 - operated by the Policja and by the Military Gendarmerie; 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, issues the European Firearms Pass
- Internal Security Agency – list of entities holding industrial security clearance
- Military Counterintelligence Service – list of issued industrial security clearances confirming the capability of an entrepreneur to protect classified information
- Polish Financial Supervision Authority – list of public stock issues after 1 January 2020 and their issuers ; list of public issues of financial instruments prior 1 January 2020 and their issuers ;
- Research and Academic Computer Network State Research Institute - National Domain Register - the Polish country code top-level domain register, member of Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries and Country Code Names Supporting Organization
- GS1 Poland Foundation - assigns the GTIN/EAN codes
- Warsaw Stock Exchange Group
- * GPW Main Market – the regulated market;
- * NewConnect – an alternative stock exchange,
- Central Securities Depository of Poland – central securities depository registering dematerialized securities and their owners, and the national numbering agency which assigns the Financial Instrument Short Name, Classification of Financial Instruments code, International Securities Identification Number, as well as Legal Entity Identifier. Its subsidiary KDPW_CCP is the national central counterparty clearing house.
Sector-specific registers and lists of regulated activities
- Polish Financial Supervision Authority – register of securities listed on an exchange or on an alternative trading system; registers of various types of regulated financial entities : 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 – National Register of Barristers ;
- National Chamber of Attorneys at Law – List of Attorneys at Law ;
- National Council of Notaries – List of notarial offices, available also through the EU e-Justice Portal, as well as the Council of the Notariats of the European Union
- Polish Agency for Audit Oversight – List of Audit Firms ;
- National Chamber of Tax Advisors – Register of Juridical Persons Authorized to Perform Tax Advisory Activities ; List of Tax Advisors
- Patent Office of the Republic of Poland – List of Patent Attorneys
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration – Register of Undertakings Licensed to Manufacture and Trade Explosives, Arms, Ammunition, and Devices or Technologies Designated for Police or Military Use ; Register of Undertakings Performing Private Investigator Services ; Register of Undertakings Licensed to Perform Personal and Property Protection Services ; Register of Entities Performing Professional Lobbying Activities ;
- Ministry of Finance – List of licensed casinos ; List of licensed bookmakers and licensed internet gambling entities ;
- Ministry of National Education – Register of Schools and Educational Institutions – public and private schools and educational institutions, excluding higher education
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education – List of Non-Public Higher Education Institutions – list of licensed non-public universities and colleges
- Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy – National Register of Employment Agencies ; Register of Nurseries and Children's Clubs ; Register of Social Assistance Units – register of public and private entities such as retirement homes, assisted living homes
- Ministry of Health
- * Register of Entities Performing Medical Activities , consists of:
- ** Register of Health Entities - includes public and private, commercial and non-commercial healthcare entities, registered by the relevant voivode, without caps on the numbers of medical professionals employed or specific restrictions on legal form or stakeholder composition of the entity; assigns an identification number 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, health spa entities, nursing homes, hospices, medical transport entities, diagnostic medical laboratories, as well as stores employing qualified medical technicians or craftsmen, involved in retail, fitting and repairs of various medical prosthetic devices ;
- ** registers of individual and group professional practices of physicians, dentists, nurses, midwives, and physiotherapists, operated by the respective regulatory colleges, with legal entity types limited exclusively to sole proprietorship in the case of individual practices, as well as to two types of trade partnerships 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 ;
- * Register of Pharmacies - with the State Pharmaceutical Inspection organs fulfilling the role of registration authority; includes community pharmacies, community dispensaries, establishment pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, hospital dispensaries other than pharmacies, the latter two types required to be also included as a unit of the parent entity in the Register of Heath Entities ;
- * Register of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers
- National Health Fund – Central List of Healthcare Providers – a public contract list of public and private healthcare providers operating under a contract with the NFZ within the general health insurance system
- State Sanitary Inspection - Register of Establishments Producing or Marketing Food Subject to the Official Control of the State Sanitary 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 ; List of designated yellow fever vaccination centers
- State Pharmaceutical Inspection – Register of Manufacturers and Importers of Medicinal Products ; National Register of Manufacturers, Importers and Distributors of Active Substances ;
- Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products – 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 ; 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 ;
- Polish Medicines Verification Organisation Foundation - national operator of the European Medicines Verification System
- National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians – List of Diagnostic Medical Laboratories – list of healthcare entities operating a clinical laboratory
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – Register of entities producing or bottling wine products ; Register of entities producing or processing ethyl alcohol ; Register of entities producing tobacco products ; Register of entities producing or bottling liquor drinks ; ;
- Veterinary Inspection – 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 ;
- Polish National Veterinary Chamber - List of Veterinary Care Establishments
- State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service – 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 ;
- National Support Centre for Agriculture – Register of biocomponent producers ; Register of entities importing biocomponents ; Register of farmers producing biofuels for their own use ; Register of agricultural biogas producers ; Register of first purchasers of cow milk ;
- Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture – 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 ; ;
- Ministry of Sport and Tourism – 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, trail shelters, inns, youth hostels, school youth hostels, as well as camping sites and tent camp sites ; it does not include certain other unrated and unclassified accommodation facilities, 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 ; List of Polish Sports Unions
- Insurance Guarantee Fund – Central Records of Tour Operators and Entrepreneurs Facilitating Linked Travel Arrangements ; Database of Compulsory Vehicle Liability Insurance
- Office of Electronic Communications – Register of Postal Operators ; Register of Telecommunications Undertakings ; Register of Maritime and Inland Ship Radio Station Permits with assigned ship callsigns, MMSI and ATIS numbers ; registers of various other permits, including radiocommunication, radio and TV broadcasting permits
- Energy Regulatory Office – registries of various types of energy undertakings : 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.
- Polish Centre for Accreditation - list of accredited organisations
- Civil Aviation Authority – List of Licensed Air Carriers, List of Holders of Air Operator Certificate ; List of holders of permits to provide ground handling services to third parties ; List of Holders of Airport Handling Agent Certificate ; List of Holders of Permits for Airport Management ; Register of Civil Aerodromes, List of Officially Listed Civil Airfields ;
- Polish Register of Shipping – ship classification society recognized at national, EU, and IMO levels, member of International Association of Classification Societies; it brokers assignment of the IMO number
- Inland Navigation Offices - Register of Ships Capable of Navigating on Inland European Waters – assigns the ENI number to vessels requiring classification by an EU-recognised inland ship classification society 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 ;
- Office of Rail Transport – List of licensed rail carriers ;
- Inspection of Road Transport – Polish Registry of Road Transport Undertakings
- State Geological Institute-State Research Institute/State Geological Service – 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
- National Broadcasting Council – 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 – Entity Search
Romania
- Ministry of Public Finance – Business search
- Ministry of Justice – The National Trade Register Office
- Financial Supervisory Authority
- Bucharest Stock Exchange – Companies directory
Slovakia
- Companies Register of the Slovak Republic — searchable directory.
- Self employed individuals register - searchable https://zrsr.sk/index
- companies and self employed individuals OSINT aggregators: https://finstat.sk/ & https://www.transparex.sk/
Slovenia
- Slovenian Business Register — maintained by the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services. ePRS includes companies, 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.
- Firmica.si — provides company formation services in Slovenia; not an official registry
- List of taxable legal entities —
- Central Securities Clearing Corporation
- List of public companies
Spain
- Central Mercantile Registry — subscription service providing legal Information of companies, statistics, and company names..
- Association of Spanish Property & Commercial Registers — subscription service
- National Securities Market Commission, search by entity —
Sweden
- Companies Registration Office —
- Financial Supervisory Authority:
- *Listed company search
- *Company register
Afghanistan
- Minister of Commerce and Industries – Central Business Registry
Albania
- National Business Center
Algeria
- The National Center of The Trade Register
Andorra
- Oficina de Marques
Angola
- Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – Central Register of Business Names
- Ministry of Finance – Registry of State Suppliers
Antigua and Barbuda
- Financial Services Regulatory Commission
Argentina
- Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
- Official Gazette
- Federal Administration of Public Revenue – tax identification number check
- National Securities Commission – Issuers
- National Procurement Office – Providers
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship – Directory of Importers/Exporters
Armenia
- Ministry of Justice – State Register of the Legal Entities
- Tax Service – Taxpayers
- Central Bank of Armenia – Listed Companies
Australia
- Australian Securities & Investments Commission – Search ASIC Registers
- Australian Securities & Investments Commission – Datasets
- Australian Business Register – Australian Business Number Lookup
- Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations – Search Corporations
Azerbaijan
- under the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan – State Register of Business Entities
- under the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Businesses engaged in production
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Bahrain
- Ministry of Industry & Commerce
- Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Members Search
- Central Bank of Bahrain – CBB Register
Barbados
- Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office – Registrants
Belarus
- Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs — Ministry of Justice
Belize
- International Business Companies Registry of Belize
Benin
- Ministry of Industry, Trade, Small and Medium Enterprises – Business Registry
Bhutan
- Office of the Registrar of Companies, Corporate Regulatory Authority, MoENR
Bolivia
- Registry of Commerce
Bosnia and Herzegovina
' and Brčko District:- *Registers of Business Entities
- *Registry of Securities – Issuers
- '
Botswana
Brazil
- BM&F Bovespa – Listed Companies
- Ministry of Finance – Federal Revenue – Legal entity tax identification number search
- State registries
- * Department of Business Registration and Integration – Map of commercial registries
| State/District | Searchable | Registry | Ref. |
| Acre | Commercial Registry of Acre | ||
| Alagoas | Commercial Registry of Alagoas | ||
| Amapá | Commercial Registry of Amapá | ||
| Amazonas | Commercial Registry of Amazonas | ||
| Bahia | Commercial Registry of Bahia | ||
| Ceará | Commercial Registry of Ceará | ||
| Distrito Federal | Commercial Registry of Distrito Federal | ||
| Espírito Santo | Commercial Registry of Espírito Santo | ||
| Goiás | Commercial Registry of Goiás | ||
| Maranhão | Commercial Registry of Maranhão | ||
| Mato Grosso | Commercial Registry of Mato Grosso | ||
| Mato Grosso do Sul | Commercial Registry of Mato Grosso do Sul | ||
| Minas Gerais | Commercial Registry of Minas Gerais | ||
| Pará | Commercial Registry of Pará | ||
| Paraíba | Commercial Registry of Paraíba | ||
| Paraná | Commercial Registry of Paraná | ||
| Pernambuco | Commercial Registry of Pernambuco | ||
| Piauí | Commercial Registry of Piauí | ||
| Rio de Janeiro | Commercial Registry of Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Rio Grande do Norte | Commercial Registry of Rio Grande do Norte | ||
| Rio Grande do Sul | Commercial Registry of Rio Grande do Sul | ||
| Rondônia | Commercial Registry of Rondônia | ||
| Roraima | Commercial Registry of Roraima | ||
| Santa Catarina | Commercial Registry of Santa Catarina | ||
| São Paulo | Commercial Registry of São Paulo | ||
| Sergipe | Commercial Registry of Sergipe | ||
| Tocantins | Commercial Registry of Tocantins |
Brunei
- Brunei Attorney General's Chamber
Burkina Faso
- House of Enterprises – Company search
Burundi
- Investment Promotion Authority
Cambodia
- Ministry of Commerce – Business Registration
Cameroon
- Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts – Company Directory
- Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts – Database of Industrial Enterprises
- Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Regional Development – Business Directory
- National Institute of Statistics – List of companies
Canada
- Corporations Canada – Search for a Federal Corporation
- Canada's Business Registries
- Provincial and territorial registries
| Province/Territory | Freely searchable | Register | Ref. |
| Alberta | Service Alberta | ||
| British Columbia | British Columbia Corporate Registry | ||
| Manitoba | Manitoba Companies Office | ||
| New Brunswick | Corporate Affairs Registry Database | ||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Companies and Deeds Online | ||
| Northwest Territories | Department of Justice – Corporate Registry | ||
| Nova Scotia | Registry of Joint Stock Companies | ||
| Nunavut | Department of Economic Development and Transportation | ||
| Nunavut | Department of Justice – Corporate Registries | ||
| Nunavut | Inuit Firm Registry | ||
| Ontario | Ontario Business Registry | ||
| Prince Edward Island | PEI Business / Corporate Registry | ||
| Quebec | Registraire des entreprises Quebec | ||
| Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan Corporate Registry | ||
| Yukon | Department of Community Services – Corporate Affairs | ||
| Yukon | Yukon Chamber of Commerce – Business Directory |
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
- Ministry of Finance – Directory of Providers
China, People's Republic of
- State Administration for Market Regulation
- Credit China
- Ministry of Commerce – Corporate Credit Rating System
- State Administration of Taxation – Corporate credit rating inquiry
- Provincial, sub-provincial and municipal registries
- *Anhui Province – Anhui Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Hefei – Hefei Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Beijing – Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Chongqing – Chongqing Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Chongqing – Chongqing Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Fujian Province – Fujian Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Fujian Province – Fujian Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Fuzhou – Fuzhou Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Xiamen – Xiamen Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Gansu – Gansu Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Guangdong – Guangdong Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Guangzhou – Guangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
- ** Guangzhou – Guangzhou Commercial Registration Information
- **Shenzhen – Market Supervision Administration of Shenzhen Municipality
- ** Shenzhen – Shenzhen Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Guangxi – Guangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Guizhou – Guizhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Guizhou Province – Guizhou Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Guiyang – Guiyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Hainan – Hainan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Hebei – Hebei Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Heilongjiang – Heilongjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Heilongjiang Province – Heilongjiang Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Harbin – Harbin Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Henan – Henan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Hubei – Hubei Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Wuhan – Wuhan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Hunan – Hunan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Hunan Province – Hunan Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Inner Mongolia – Inner Mongolia Administration for Industry and Commerce
- Inner Mongolia – Inner Mongolia Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Jiangsu -– Jiangsu Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Wuxi – Wuxi Enterprise Credit Information System
- *Jiangxi – Jiangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Jilin – Jilin Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Liaoning – Liaoning Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Liaoning Province – Liaoning Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Dalian – Dalian Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Dandong – Dandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Shenyang – Shenyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region – Ningxia Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Qinghai – Qinghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Shaanxi – Shaanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Shaanxi Province – Shaanxi enterprise credit information system
- **Xi'an – Xi'an Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Shandong – Shandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Dongying – Dongying Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Qingdao – Qingdao Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Weihai – Weihai Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Shanghai – Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Shanxi – Shanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Sichuan – Sichuan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Sichuan Province – Sichuan Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Chengdu – Chengdu Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Tianjin – Tianjin City Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Binhai – Binhai company search
- *Tibet Autonomous Region – Tibet Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region – Xinjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Yunnan – Yunnan Administration for Industry and Commerce
- **Kunming – Kunming Administration for Industry and Commerce
- *Zhejiang – Zhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
- * Zhejiang Province – Zhejiang Enterprise Credit Information System
- **Hangzhou – Hangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
- ** Hangzhou – Hangzhou Enterprise Credit Information System
- Special Administrative Territories
- * Hong Kong
- ** Hong Kong Integrated Companies Registry Information System – Companies Register
- **Inland Revenue Department – Business Registration Number Enquiry
- **Securities and Futures Commission – Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions
- *Macau
- **Government Printing Bureau
- ** Directorate of Justice Affairs Services
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
- Ministry of Economic Affairs
- *Company Registration Enquiry
- *Business registration lists
- *Business registration lists
- *List of Taiwanese companies in mainland China
- *List of Taiwanese companies doing business outside of Taiwan
- *List of non-Taiwanese companies registered in Taiwan
- Taiwan Stock Exchange – Market Observation Post System
Colombia
- Unified Commercial and Social Registry
- Superintendency of Corporations
- *Business Check
- *SIREM Company Search
- Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia – Comprehensive Stock Market Information System
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – Business Registry
Congo, Republic of the
- National Center for Statistics and Economic Studies – "Base de données"
- Official gazette
Cook Islands
- Financial Supervisory Commission – Registrar's Office
Costa Rica
- National Registry
- General Directorate Of Taxation – 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 —
Djibouti
- Office of Industrial Property and Commerce – Official Bulletin
Dominica
- Companies and Intellectual Property Office – Name search
Dominican Republic
- Generate Directorate of Internal Revenue – Tax-paying companies search
- Generate Directorate of Internal Revenue – Companies without operations
- National Office of Industrial Property – Trade name search
- General Directorate of Public Procurement – Provider search
- Santo Domingo – Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce and Production
Dutch Caribbean
- ': 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
Ecuador
- Superintendency of Companies
- Internal Revenue Service – Tax Authority
- National Institute of Statistics and Census – Statistics Authority
- National Secretariat of Policy Management – Directory of Social Organizations
- Official Public Procurement System – Government Provider search
Egypt
- Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade – 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 – List of providers
Eritrea
- Ministry of Information – Official journal
Ethiopia
- Ministry of Trade
- Ministry of Tourism
Fiji
- Fiji Government – Companies and Business Registration
Gabon
- Investment Promotion Agency
Georgia
- D&B Report Guide Georgia — summary of legal forms and filing requirements.
- Public Registry —
Ghana
- Registrar General's Department
- Public Procurement Authority – Registered Suppliers and Contractors
Grenada
- Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property
Guatemala
- Mercantile Registry
- State Procurement System – Provider search
Guinea
- Investment Promotion Agency
Guyana
- Ministry of Legal Affairs – Deeds Registry The Official Gazette of GuyanaGeorgetown – Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Directory of Members
Haiti
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry – Electronic Commerce Registry
Hong Kong
- Business Registration Office
- Companies Registry
Honduras
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Executive Directorate of Income – company tax identification code check
- State Office Procurement – Provider search
India
Indonesia
- Ministry of Industry – Industrial Company Directory
- Ministry of Trade – Corporate Directory
- Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Indonesia Charter bus – Transportation
Iran
- Iranian Judiciary System - under Legal Entities National ID Portal Official Journal older archived url https://web.archive.org/web/gazette.ir
- Official Journal
- 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 – Israeli Corporations Authority
- Justice Ministry – Israeli Corporations Authority – Additional details available in company extract
- Israel Securities Authority – 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 – Company Search
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications – Statistical business register
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
- National Construction Authority – Registered Contractors
Kiribati
Kosovo
- Ministry of Trade and Industry – Business Registration Agency
Kuwait
- Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Company Search
- Kuwait Stock Exchange – Listed Companies
Kyrgyzstan
- Ministry of Justice – Register of Legal Entities
Laos
- Ministry of Industry and Commerce – Registered Enterprises
Lebanon
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 – Taxable entity search
Malawi
- Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs – Registrar General
Malaysia
- Companies Commission of Malaysia – Company search
- Labuan – 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
Mauritius
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Development – Corporate and Business Registration Department
Mexico
- Secretariat of Economy
- *National Business Information Registry
- *Company name search
- *Integrated System of Registry Management – list of all state and municipal commercial registries
- Mexican Institute of Industrial Property – Trade name search
- Registry of Suppliers and Contractors
- ProMéxico – Directory of Exporters
- State registries
| State/District | Searchable | Registry | Ref. |
| Aguascalientes | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Aguascalientes | ||
| Baja California | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Baja California | ||
| Baja California Sur | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Baja California Sur | ||
| Campeche | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Campeche | ||
| Chiapas | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Chiapas | ||
| Chihuahua | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Chihuahua | ||
| Coahuila | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Coahuila | ||
| Colima | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Colima | ||
| Durango | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Durango | ||
| Guanajuato | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Guanajuato | ||
| Guerrero | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Guerrero | ||
| Hidalgo | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Hidalgo | ||
| Jalisco | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Jalisco | ||
| Mexico City | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Mexico City | ||
| Mexico State | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Mexico State | ||
| Michoacán | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Michoacán | ||
| Morelos | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Morelos | ||
| Nayarit | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Nayarit | ||
| Nuevo León | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Nuevo León | ||
| Oaxaca | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Oaxaca | ||
| Puebla | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Puebla | ||
| Querétaro | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Querétaro | ||
| Quintana Roo | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Quintana Roo | ||
| San Luis Potosí | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of San Luis Potosí | ||
| Sinaloa | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Sinaloa | ||
| Sonora | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Sonora | ||
| Tabasco | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Tabasco | ||
| Tamaulipas | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Tamaulipas | ||
| Tlaxcala | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Tlaxcala | ||
| Veracruz | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Veracruz | ||
| Yucatán | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Yucatán | ||
| Zacatecas | Public Registry of Property and Commerce of Zacatecas |
Micronesia, Federated States of
- Registrar of Companies – Listing of FSM Corporations
Moldova
- Licensing Chamber
- Ministry of Justice
- *State Registration Chamber
- *State Register of non-profit Organizations
- State Tax Service
- *Taxable entity search – search by Unique State Identification Number
- *List of taxable entities
Monaco
- Registry of Commerce and Industry
Montenegro
- Central Registry of Business Entities
- Montenegro Stock Exchange – Company search
Mongolia
- General Authority for State Registration
Morocco
- Central Trade Registry
- Central Trade Registry
- Financial Markets Authority – Listed Companies
- Casablanca – Register of Commerce
- Fès – Register of Commerce
- Marrakech – Register of Commerce
- Meknès – Register of Commerce
- Oujda – Register of Commerce
- Rabat – Register of Commerce
- Salé – Register of Commerce
- Tangier – 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 – Business search
- General Directorate of State Procurement – Provider search
Niger
- National Institute of Statistics – Directory of Companies
Nigeria
- Corporate Affairs Commission
- 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 – Search Company Listings
- Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Trade Directory
Pakistan
- Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan – Company Name Search
Palau
- Office of the Attorney General – Registrar of Corporations
Palestine
- Ministry of National Economy – Companies Registry
Panama
- Public Registry of Panama
- Panama Emprende at the Ministry of Commerce and Industries
Papua New Guinea
- Investment Promotion Authority – Entity Search
Paraguay
- Ministry of Finance – Taxable entity search
- Find out the adress of any RUC
- List of rucs
- Undersecretary of State Taxation – company tax identification number check
- National Directorate of Public Procurement – Provider search
Peru
- National Superintendency of Public Registries
- National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration
- National Superintendency for Banks, Insurance Companies and Pension Fund Administrators
- National Superintendency for the Securities Market - Supervised companies search
- Supervisory Agency for State Contracts – Provider search
Philippines
- Department of Trade and Industry – Business Name Registration System
- Securities and Exchange Commission – Electronic Simplified Processing of Application for Registration of Company
- Cooperative Development Authority - Cooperative Registration Information System
Qatar
- Ministry of Business and Trade – Companies Control Department
- Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Business Directory
- Qatar Financial Centre Authority – Public Register
Russia
- Federal Tax Service – and is responsible for issuing known in its acronym OGRN in accordance with Federal Law No. 129-ФЗ "On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs", adopted 8 August 2001 and entering into force on July 1, 2002.
- National Classifier of Enterprises and Organizations
Rwanda
- Office of the Registrar General
- 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
- Registry of International Business Companies and International Trusts
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 – License Search Riyadh – Riyadh Chamber of Commerce & Industry Jeddah – Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Business Directory
Senegal
- Business Creation Support Bureau
Serbia
- Serbian Business Registers Agency — runs three registers.
- *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.
- Lists of Providers of Financial Services
Seychelles
- Seychelles Business Register
- Seychelles Financial Services Authority
Sierra Leone
- Office of the Administrator and Registrar General
Singapore
- Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority – Entity search
- Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore – GST Registered Business Search
- Monetary Authority of Singapore – Financial Institutions Directory
Solomon Islands
- Solomon Islands Business Registry
South Africa
South Korea
- Start-Biz Online
- Small and Medium Business Administration
- Supreme Court – Registry
- Financial Supervisory Service – Repository of Korea's Corporate Filings
South Sudan
- Ministry of Justice – Business Registry
Sri Lanka
- Department of Registrar of Companies
Sudan
- Ministry of Justice – Commercial Registrations Department
Suriname
- Chamber of Commerce and Factories
- Ghana-Suriname Chamber of Commerce
- Suriname-Guyana Chamber of Commerce
- Suriname-Guyana Chamber of Commerce
- Suriname-India Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Suriname-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
Switzerland
— Swiss company registers are organized at cantonal level.- Central Business Names Index — maintained by the Federal Commercial Registry Office. Contains information of corporate bodies and public-law corporations registered in the Commercial Register.
- * Swiss Commercial Gazette — official gazette that publishes new entries and changes in the commercial register.
- Moneyhouse — maintained by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Contains information of ultimate beneficial owners, corporate bodies and public-law corporations registered in the Commercial Register.
Tajikistan
- Tax Committee – Register of Legal Entities
Tanzania
- Business Registrations and Licensing Agency
Thailand
- Ministry of Commerce – Department of Business Development
Timor-Leste
- Institute for Business Support – Enterprises
- Service Registry and Company Verification
- 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 – Turkish Trade Registry Gazette
- Central Registration System
- Turkish Standards Institution – Company SearchAdana – Adana Chamber of Commerce – Trade Name SearchAksaray – Aksaray Chamber of Commerce Bursa – Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Search for Member CompaniesGaziantep – Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce – Member Search Istanbul – Istanbul Chamber of Commerce – Company Search Konya – Konya Chamber of Commerce – Company Directory Mersin – Mersin Chamber of Commerce
Trinidad and Tobago
- Companies Registry
- Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission – Registered Companies, Individuals & Securities
Uganda
- Uganda Registration Services Bureau
- Register of Providers
Ukraine
- State Enterprise Information Resource Centre — official, searchable companies register for Ukraine.
- State Fiscal Service:
- * Business Search —
- * Register of VAT payers —
- * Register of Fixed tax payers —
- State Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets:
- *Integrated Information System —
- *Other registers —
- Unified Register of Civic Organizations — maintained by the Ministry of Justice
United Arab Emirates
- Ministry of Economy – Business Name Search
- Securities and Commodities Authority – Company DetailsAbu Dhabi – 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 Registration Authority
- Abu Dhabi – Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange – Listed CompaniesAjman – Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Commercial Search
- Ajman – Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Industrial Search
- Ajman – Ajman Free Zone – DirectoryDubai – Department of Economic Development – Trade Name Search
- Dubai – Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Commercial Directory
- Dubai – Dubai Financial Market – Listed Companies
- Dubai – Dubai Financial Services Authority – Public Register
- Dubai – Dubai Multi Commodities Centre - DMCC official Website
- Dubai – Dubai International Financial Centre – Client Directory
- Dubai – Dubai Airport Freezone – Directory
- Dubai – Jebel Ali Free Zone – Client Directory
- Dubai – Dubai Internet City – Partners Directory
- Dubai – Dubai Knowledge Village – Partners Directory
- Dubai – NASDAQ Dubai – Listed CompaniesFujairah – Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Business Directory
- Fujairah – Fujairah Free Zone – Company ListingRas Al Khaimah – Ras Al Khaimah Investment AuthoritySharjah – Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Business Directory
- Sharjah – Hamriyah Free Zone – Directory
- Sharjah – Sharjah Airport International Free Zone – Investor DirectoryUmm al-Quwain – Chamber of Commerce and Industry
United Kingdom
- '
- *Companies House — 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
- British Overseas Territories
- * ': Anguilla Financial Services — Anguilla Commercial Online Registration Network
- * ': Registrar of Companies
- * ': Financial Services Commission — Registry of Corporate Affairs
- * ':
- ** General Registry
- ** Cayman Islands Monetary Authority — Search for Entities
- * '
- ** Companies House Gibraltar
- * ': Financial Services Commission — not searchable
- * ': Financial Services Commission, companies registry — not searchable
- Crown Dependencies
- * '
- ** 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.
- * '
- ** 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. There is a searchable directory.
- *
- ** JFSC Companies Registry — maintained by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
United States
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Search for Company Filings
- State registries
- District/Territorial registries
| Jurisdiction | Department/Agency | Ref. |
| District of Columbia | Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs – Corporations Division | |
| Guam | Department of Revenue and Taxation – General Licensing and Registration Branch | |
| Northern Mariana Islands | Department of Commerce – Registrar of Corporation | |
| Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico Department of State | |
| United States Virgin Islands | Division of Corporations and Trademarks |
Uruguay
- Agency for Development of Electronic Government and Society of Information and Knowledge – Incorporated businesses
- 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
Venezuela
- National Procurement Service – Registered government contractor search
- SENIAT – company tax identification code check
- Supreme Tribunal of Justice – Official Gazette
- Autonomous Registries and Notaries Service
Vietnam
- Ministry of Planning and Investment – Agency of Business Registration
- Ministry of Planning and Investment – E-gazette search
- Ministry of Finance – General Department of Taxation – Taxpayer Directory
Yemen
- Ministry of Industry and Trade
Zambia
- Patents and Companies Registration Agency
- Zambia Revenue Authority – Taxpayer Search
Zimbabwe
- Department of Deeds, Companies & Intellectual Property
Other
- the European Business Register Network is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities in most of the European countries