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

Austria

Wiener Zeitung '''' — the official gazette. Firmenbuch — the searchable database.

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

Denmark

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

Germany

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

Italy

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

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 DevelopmentCentral 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 Gazetteofficial 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 AgricultureNational 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 SciencesRegister of Research Institutes
  • Ministry of Science and Higher EducationRegister 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 Administrationregister 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
Notably absent are:
  • 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 FinanceCentral Register of Beneficial Owners – a register of ultimate beneficial owners National Fiscal Administration
  • * Central Register of EntitiesNational 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 InstitutionCentral 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 OfficeNational Official Business Registerstatistical 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 PolandPatent 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 PolandCentral 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 AuthorityRegister 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 DevelopmentRegistry 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 Polandcentral 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 FundCentral 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 Shippingship 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

Romania

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

Afghanistan

Albania

  • National Business Center

Algeria

  • The National Center of The Trade Register

Andorra

  • Oficina de Marques

Angola

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

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

Belarus

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
  • ':
  • *Registers of Business Entities
  • *Central 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/DistrictSearchableRegistryRef.
AcreCommercial Registry of Acre
AlagoasCommercial Registry of Alagoas
AmapáCommercial Registry of Amapá
AmazonasCommercial Registry of Amazonas
BahiaCommercial Registry of Bahia
CearáCommercial Registry of Ceará
Distrito FederalCommercial Registry of Distrito Federal
Espírito SantoCommercial Registry of Espírito Santo
GoiásCommercial Registry of Goiás
MaranhãoCommercial Registry of Maranhão
Mato GrossoCommercial Registry of Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do SulCommercial Registry of Mato Grosso do Sul
Minas GeraisCommercial Registry of Minas Gerais
ParáCommercial Registry of Pará
ParaíbaCommercial Registry of Paraíba
ParanáCommercial Registry of Paraná
PernambucoCommercial Registry of Pernambuco
PiauíCommercial Registry of Piauí
Rio de JaneiroCommercial Registry of Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande do NorteCommercial Registry of Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do SulCommercial Registry of Rio Grande do Sul
RondôniaCommercial Registry of Rondônia
RoraimaCommercial Registry of Roraima
Santa CatarinaCommercial Registry of Santa Catarina
São PauloCommercial Registry of São Paulo
SergipeCommercial Registry of Sergipe
TocantinsCommercial Registry of Tocantins

Brunei

  • Brunei Attorney General's Chamber

Burkina Faso

  • House of Enterprises – Company search

Burundi

  • Investment Promotion Authority

Cambodia

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/TerritoryFreely searchableRegisterRef.
AlbertaService Alberta
British ColumbiaBritish Columbia Corporate Registry
ManitobaManitoba Companies Office
New BrunswickCorporate Affairs Registry Database
Newfoundland and LabradorCompanies and Deeds Online
Northwest TerritoriesDepartment of Justice – Corporate Registry
Nova ScotiaRegistry of Joint Stock Companies
NunavutDepartment of Economic Development and Transportation
NunavutDepartment of Justice – Corporate Registries
NunavutInuit Firm Registry
OntarioOntario Business Registry
Prince Edward IslandPEI Business / Corporate Registry
QuebecRegistraire des entreprises Quebec
SaskatchewanSaskatchewan Corporate Registry
YukonDepartment of Community Services – Corporate Affairs
YukonYukon Chamber of Commerce – Business Directory

Cape Verde

  • Official Gazette

Central African Republic

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
  • **HefeiHefei Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *Beijing – Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *ChongqingChongqing 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
  • **FuzhouFuzhou Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **XiamenXiamen Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *GansuGansu Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *GuangdongGuangdong Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **GuangzhouGuangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • ** Guangzhou – Guangzhou Commercial Registration Information
  • **Shenzhen – Market Supervision Administration of Shenzhen Municipality
  • ** Shenzhen – Shenzhen Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *GuangxiGuangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *GuizhouGuizhou Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Guizhou Province – Guizhou Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **GuiyangGuiyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *HainanHainan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *HebeiHebei Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *HeilongjiangHeilongjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Heilongjiang Province – Heilongjiang Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **HarbinHarbin Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *HenanHenan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *HubeiHubei Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **WuhanWuhan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *HunanHunan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Hunan Province – Hunan Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *Inner MongoliaInner Mongolia Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • Inner Mongolia – Inner Mongolia Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *Jiangsu -– Jiangsu Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **WuxiWuxi Enterprise Credit Information System
  • *JiangxiJiangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *JilinJilin Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *LiaoningLiaoning Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Liaoning Province – Liaoning Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **DalianDalian Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **DandongDandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **ShenyangShenyang Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *Ningxia Hui Autonomous RegionNingxia Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *QinghaiQinghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *ShaanxiShaanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Shaanxi Province – Shaanxi enterprise credit information system
  • **Xi'anXi'an Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *ShandongShandong Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **DongyingDongying Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **QingdaoQingdao Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **WeihaiWeihai Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *Shanghai – Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *ShanxiShanxi Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *SichuanSichuan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Sichuan Province – Sichuan Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **ChengduChengdu Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *TianjinTianjin City Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **BinhaiBinhai company search
  • *Tibet Autonomous Region – Tibet Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionXinjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *YunnanYunnan Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • **KunmingKunming Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • *ZhejiangZhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce
  • * Zhejiang Province – Zhejiang Enterprise Credit Information System
  • **HangzhouHangzhou 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

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

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

Grenada

  • Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property

Guatemala

  • Mercantile Registry
  • State Procurement System – Provider search

Guinea

  • Investment Promotion Agency

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

Honduras

  • Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Executive Directorate of Income – company tax identification code check
  • State Office Procurement – Provider search

India

Indonesia

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

Jamaica

  • Office of the Registrar of Companies
  • National Contracts Commission – Registered Contractors

Japan

Jordan

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

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

  • Ministry of Justice – Register of Legal Entities

Laos

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

Maldives

  • Ministry of Economic Development

Mali

  • Investment Promotion Agency

Marshall Islands

  • Marshall Islands Maritime & Corporate Administrators

Mauritania

  • Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture

Mauritius

Mexico

State/DistrictSearchableRegistryRef.
AguascalientesPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Aguascalientes
Baja CaliforniaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Baja California
Baja California SurPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Baja California Sur
CampechePublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Campeche
ChiapasPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Chiapas
ChihuahuaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Chihuahua
CoahuilaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Coahuila
ColimaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Colima
DurangoPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Durango
GuanajuatoPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Guanajuato
GuerreroPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Guerrero
HidalgoPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Hidalgo
JaliscoPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Jalisco
Mexico CityPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Mexico City
Mexico StatePublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Mexico State
MichoacánPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Michoacán
MorelosPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Morelos
NayaritPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Nayarit
Nuevo LeónPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Nuevo León
OaxacaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Oaxaca
PueblaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Puebla
QuerétaroPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Querétaro
Quintana RooPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Quintana Roo
San Luis PotosíPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of San Luis Potosí
SinaloaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Sinaloa
SonoraPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Sonora
TabascoPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Tabasco
TamaulipasPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Tamaulipas
TlaxcalaPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Tlaxcala
VeracruzPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Veracruz
YucatánPublic Registry of Property and Commerce of Yucatán
ZacatecasPublic 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

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

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

Niue

  • Companies Office of Niue

North Macedonia

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Palestine

  • Ministry of National Economy – Companies Registry

Panama

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

Qatar

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

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

Sierra Leone

  • Office of the Administrator and Registrar General

Singapore

Solomon Islands

  • Solomon Islands Business Registry

South Africa

South Korea

South Sudan

Sri Lanka

  • Department of Registrar of Companies

Sudan

  • Ministry of Justice – Commercial Registrations Department

Suriname

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

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

Trinidad and Tobago

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

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

StateDepartment/AgencyRef.
AlabamaSecretary of State of Alabama
AlaskaAlaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development
ArizonaArizona Corporation Commission
ArkansasSecretary of State of Arkansas
CaliforniaSecretary of State of California
ColoradoSecretary of State of Colorado
ConnecticutSecretary of the State of Connecticut
DelawareSecretary of State of Delaware
FloridaSecretary of State of Florida
GeorgiaSecretary of State of Georgia
HawaiiDepartment of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
IdahoSecretary of State of Idaho
IllinoisIllinois Secretary of State
IndianaSecretary of State of Indiana
IowaIowa Secretary of State
KansasSecretary of State of Kansas
KentuckySecretary of State of Kentucky
LouisianaSecretary of State of Louisiana
MaineSecretary of State of Maine
MarylandMaryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation
MassachusettsMassachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
MichiganDepartment of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
MinnesotaMinnesota Secretary of State
MississippiSecretary of State of Mississippi
MissouriList of [Missouri Secretaries of State|Missouri Secretary of State]
MontanaSecretary of State of Montana
NebraskaSecretary of State of Nebraska
NevadaSecretary of State of Nevada
New HampshireNew Hampshire Secretary of State
New JerseyNew Jersey Department of the Treasury
New MexicoNew Mexico Public Regulation Commission
New YorkSecretary of State of New York
North CarolinaNorth Carolina Secretary of State
North DakotaNorth Dakota Secretary of State
OhioOhio Secretary of State
OklahomaOklahoma Secretary of State
OregonOregon Secretary of State
PennsylvaniaSecretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Rhode IslandSecretary of State of Rhode Island
South CarolinaSecretary of State of South Carolina
South DakotaSecretary of State of South Dakota
TennesseeTennessee Secretary of State
TexasSecretary of State of Texas
TexasTexas Comptroller of Public Accounts
UtahUtah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code
VermontSecretary of State of Vermont
VirginiaState Corporation Commission
WashingtonSecretary of State of Washington
West VirginiaSecretary of State of West Virginia
WisconsinWisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
WyomingSecretary of State of Wyoming

  • District/Territorial registries
JurisdictionDepartment/AgencyRef.
District of ColumbiaDepartment of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs – Corporations Division
GuamDepartment of Revenue and Taxation – General Licensing and Registration Branch
Northern Mariana IslandsDepartment of Commerce – Registrar of Corporation
Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Department of State
United States Virgin IslandsDivision 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

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