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General information on finding beneficial owners

The Beneficial Ownership Register Interconnection System ('BORIS') is a tool for linking national central registers containing information on the beneficial owners of companies and other legal entities, trusts and other types of legal arrangements.

General information on finding beneficial owners

About this service

When the authorization is available and you are authorised to access this information, you will be able to get information about the beneficial owners of companies, legal entities, trusts or legal arrangements registered in national registers of EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway using the ‘Find beneficial ownership information’ service.

It is part of the Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS), set up in line with Directive (EU) 2015/849 and as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/843.

Find out more about national beneficial ownership registers and the information therein.

For any queries about this service please contact just-boris-helpdesk@ec.europa.eu.

How it works

To search for a beneficial owner:

  • Search by entity name and/or entity registration number.
  • You’ll see a list of results matching your search with the price and respective beneficial ownership Information.
  • Select the Beneficial Ownership (BO) Information you want and add them to your basket.
  • Check out when you’ve selected the BO Information you need.

Document delivery

BO Information documents will be available for download in your browser.

You will be notified by email of the availability of documents as soon as they are delivered by the national registers.

Access to documents

Once a BO Information document is available for download in your browser, you can save it locally for your own use.

BO Information documents will be available for download for 6 days from the time of delivery.

Links to webpages of national registries

Country Beneficial Ownership register Beneficial Ownership Register Details
Austria Bundesministerium für Finanzen Register der wirtschaftlichen Eigentümer BOR Details Austria  (154 Kb) 
Belgium Registre UBO/UBO Register BOR Details Belgium  (148 Kb) 
Bulgaria Commercial Register and Non-Profit Legal Entities Register BOR Details Bulgaria  (137 Kb) 
Croatia

Link for access by national authorities

Link for access by public

BOR Details Croatia  (227 Kb) 
Czech Republic Evidence skutečných majitelů (Czech Register of Beneficial Owners) BOR Details Czech Republic  (165 Kb) 
Cyprus

National register Cyprus: The Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property (DRCIP)

Cyprus Trusts Beneficial Owners Register – ‘CyTBOR’

BOR Details Cyprus  (176 Kb) 
Denmark The Central Business Register (CVR) BOR Details Denmark  (119 Kb) 
Estonia The data of the beneficial owner are made public in the commercial register information system: Äriregister/Commercial Register BOR Details Estonia  (158 Kb) 
Finland Patentti-ja Rekisterihallitus (Finnish Patent and Registration Office) BOR Details Finland  (181 Kb) 
France

The French Institut national de la propriété intellectuelle (INPI) is the entity who will centralize BO information to be interconnected at EU level

BO info of legal persons are centralized by each greffier des tribunaux de commerce whose coordination instance is the Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce

BOR Details France  (121 Kb) 
Germany Transparenzregister (transparency register) BOR Details Germany  (115 Kb) 
Greece Κεντρικό Μητρώο Πραγματικών Δικαιούχων (Κ.Μ.Π.Δ.) BOR Details Greece  (125 Kb) 
Hungary The link of the BO registry is not available yet. BOR Details Hungary  (187 Kb) 
Iceland Iceland Revenue and Customs (Skatturinn) BOR Details Iceland  (119 Kb) 
Ireland

Central Bank of Ireland - Beneficial Ownership Register of Certain Financial Vehicles

Central Register of Beneficial Ownership of Companies and Industrial and Provident Societies - for beneficial ownership information for corporate and other legal entities

BOR Details Ireland  (157 Kb) 
Italy Information not available  
Latvia The information website of The Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia BOR Details Latvia  (124 Kb) 
Liechtenstein The BO Register is maintained electronically, but access to BO data in principle requires a written application to the Office of Justice. BOR details Lichtenstein  (49 Kb) 
Lithuania Legal Entity Participants Information System (JADIS) BOR Details Lithuania  (120 Kb) 
Luxembourg The Register is established under the authority of the AED under the name of “Fiducies and Trusts Register" BOR Details Luxembourg  (164 Kb) 
Malta

Register of Beneficial Owners for Commercial Partnerships and Legal Entities is administered by the Malta Business Registry (MBR)

In case of the BO Register of Trusts which is administered by the MFSA, the platform is called the Trusts Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Register (TUBOR)

BOR Details Malta  (152 Kb) 
Netherlands KVK uittreksel UBO-register BOR Details Netherlands  (159 Kb) 
Norway The Norwegian Register of Beneficial Owners is maintained by the Brønnøysund Register Centre. The register does not have an open interface for queries, but access to the register is provided via API. BOR Details Norway  (115 Kb) 
Poland Centralny Rejestr Beneficjentów Rzeczywistych (Central Register of Beneficial Owners) BOR Details Poland  (183 Kb) 
Portugal Registo de Beneficiário Efetivo BOR Details Portugal  (123 Kb) 
Romania The National Trade Register Office manages the Register of Real Beneficiaries BOR Details Romania  (210 Kb) 
Slovakia Register konečných užívateľov výhod BOR Details Slovakia  (115 Kb) 
Slovenia Beneficial Ownership register BOR Details Slovenia  (181 Kb) 
Spain

Registro Central de Titularidades Reales (RCTIR) website

Access to the procedures that can be carried out in relation to the RCTIR

BOR Details Spain  (169 Kb) 
Sweden Bolagsverket (Swedish Companies Registration Office) BOR Details Sweden  (145 Kb) 

Data Protection

To find out how we protect your personal data, please read our legal notice, in particular the privacy statement and the data protection rules  (424 Kb) . You may also find it useful to read the data protection rules in the countries participating in BORIS

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