Setting up a business

In accordance with the legal rules in force, the main function of the commercial register kept by the National Trade Register Office is to register all legal persons subject to registration and authorised natural persons, individual undertakings and family businesses carrying out an economic activity that have their registered office or headquarters within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, and to record changes to already registered acts, facts and entries.

In order to obtain the detailed list of documents required when registering a company, please consult the information provided under the ‘Incorporations’ menu of the National Trade Register Officewebsite, which includes the following sections:

• Preliminary operations;
• Natural persons;
• Legal persons.

Entry in the trade register of legal persons, authorised natural persons, individual undertakings and family businesses carrying out an economic activity that have their registered office or headquarters within the territorial jurisdiction of the court involves recording data from the registration documents of the entities being registered and keeping an official archive of incorporation documents or amendments thereto and of other documents expressly provided for by law.

Moreover, in accordance with the legal rules in force, the National Trade Register Office keeps the register of beneficial owners of companies for legal persons required to be entered in the commercial register, except for public corporations, businesses and national companies.

The documents required to register a legal or natural person can be transmitted online through the Electronic Single Point of Contact(you can find the corresponding links in the Available services section below).

More information on incorporations:

• Incorporations natural persons
• Incorporations legal persons