Business Register System (, abbreviated URS) is a
statistical business register A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
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in Germany which provides structural data about economic sectors and serves as the essential source of information about entities which is needed for planning, preparation and implementation of statistical surveys.
Legal basis
Business Register System 95 (URS 95) operates according to
EU Regulation
A regulation is a legal act of the European Union that becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously. Regulations can be distinguished from directives which, at least in principle, need to be transposed into nation ...
(EEC European Economic Community) No 2186/93 on Community
coordination in drawing up business registers for statistical purposes.
URS also has a national legal basis: Statistical Register Law – StatRegG of 16 June 1998.
URS Neu, newer register system operates according to the newer version of regulation No 177/2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes.
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Economic databases