The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several

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an countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the fully integrated approach of the

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in the legislation designed to achieve regulations to promote transparent financial markets and to facilitate free movement of

companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specifi ...

. The EBR has served as a starting point of the Business Register Interoperability Throughout Europe (BRITE) project which developed an interoperability solution

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for Business Registers to interact across the

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. BRIS makes it possible to obtain comparable, official

company A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether Natural person, natural, Juridical person, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members ...

information from the countries connected to the network. The EBR is at the moment composed of 26 partners and delivers company information from 25

an countries. Amongst others the European Business registers contains remarks about: *legal name of a

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*people representing the

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, holders of Proxy) *subscribed

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if any. Many scams circulate offering inclusion in the European Business register against payment of a hidden fee, these do not refer to the official register though; inclusion in the European Business Register is free of charge and mostly automatically done by registering a company within one of the partnering countries. {{static row numbers} {, class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-text" , - !colspan=2 , Partners of the EBR network , - , ---- , {{AUT , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{BEL , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{GER , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{EST , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{ESP , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{IRL , Company profiles , ---- , {{ITA , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{CZE , Not yet available , ---- , {{LVA , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{NOR , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{FRA , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{FIN , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{DNK , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{SWE , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{JEY , Company profiles , ---- , {{GBR , Company profiles , ---- , {{NLD , Company profiles , ---- , {{LIT , Company profiles , ---- , {{SRB , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{SVK , Not yet available , ---- , {{SLO , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{MKD , Company profiles , ---- , {{LUX , Company profiles and appointments , ---- , {{MLT , Company profiles , ---- , {{GGY , Company profiles , ----

References

External links

Official website of the European Business Register Network

Global database of company financial reports and incorporation documents
Online databases Databases in Europe Registrars of companies

See also

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