European Company Registers (UK, Norway, Finland, Czechia)

Search the official company registers of the United Kingdom (Companies House), Norway (Brønnøysund), Finland (PRH / YTJ) and Czechia (ARES) in one run, by company name or register id. For the UK, also filter by SIC code, postcode, incorporation date, legal form and status: for example, active software companies incorporated in London EC1 since 2024. You get one row per company in one shape for all four countries: register id, name, legal form, status, registration date, industry code, municipality and the register's own page. USD 0.003 per company (USD 3 per 1,000). A search without results, an id not found and a withheld id are free. No API key. English field names.

Country	Register id	Name	Legal form	Status	Industry code	Municipality
NO	923609016	EQUINOR ASA	Public limited company	active	06.100	STAVANGER
NO	959733600	EQUINOR PENSJON	Pension fund	active	65.300	STAVANGER
NO	985619433	EQUINOR ALGERIA AS	Private limited company	active	06.100	STAVANGER
FI	3188362-7	Equinorm Oy	Limited company	active	72100	ESPOO
CZ	23417153	EQUINOR 1, s.r.o.	Limited liability company (s.r.o.)	active	68200	Brno
GB	01285743	EQUINOR UK LIMITED	Private limited company	active	06200	LONDON
GB	OE023523	EQUINOR ENERGY AS	Overseas entity (Register of Overseas Entities)	active		STAVANGER

The NO, FI and CZ rows come from a real cloud run of 04.11.2026 (run OhRuC5HVxnsKKIfd7, "query": "equinor"), the GB rows from the cloud run of 05.11.2026 (run AXmdkHMPtxKceLURf, Companies House's file of 2026-11-01). The full item is under Output.

Country	Register	Register id
NO Norway	Brønnøysund Register Centre, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret)	organisation number, 9 digits
FI Finland	Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH), the Finnish Business Information System (YTJ)	business id (Y-tunnus), 1234567-8
CZ Czechia	ARES, the Administrative Register of Economic Subjects (Ministry of Finance)	IČO, 8 digits
GB United Kingdom	Companies House, the Free Company Data Product (all live companies, renewed monthly)	company number, 8 characters: 01285743, SC123456

Who uses it

• Supplier and customer checks (KYB pre-checks): confirm that a UK, Nordic or Czech company exists, is active and has the legal form it claims.
• CRM enrichment: add the legal form, the status, the industry code and the municipality to a list of register ids.
• Market maps: companies with a name word in four registers, for example the subsidiaries of a group.
• UK lead lists: the companies of an industry (SIC code) in an area (postcode), new companies (incorporation date), or companies in liquidation or administration.

What it does not do

• No officers, owners or shareholders, and no sole traders: their names are personal data (see below).
• No street address, telephone or e-mail: the address stops at the municipality and the postal code (UK: the postcode's outward code, such as SW1A).
• Norway, Finland and Czechia: no search by industry or region; their search here is by name or id. The UK filters work for the UK only.
• No dissolved UK companies: Companies House's file holds the live companies only.
• At most 1,000 companies per register and run; ARES answers no Czech search with more than 1,000 matches.

Input

{ "query": "equinor", "countries": ["NO", "FI", "CZ"], "maxCompanies": 20 }

Field	Meaning
query	Words of a company name, such as equinor or skoda auto. Finland also searches former and auxiliary names. The UK: every word must be in the current name.
registerIds	Up to 1,000 ids, mixed: 923609016 or NO923609016MVA (Norway), 0112038-9 or FI01120389 (Finland), 00177041 or CZ00177041 (Czechia), SC123456 or GB-COH-01285743 (UK). The country follows from the format. NO, FI and CZ check digits are verified.
countries	The registers the search runs in: NO, FI, CZ, GB. Default: NO, FI, CZ. Add GB for the UK: it reads Companies House's monthly file until it has its companies (the whole file: about 7 minutes at the default 1,024 MB; more memory is faster). Register ids go to their own register.
maxCompanies	The search stops in each register after this many companies. Default 50, at most 1,000. Companies looked up by id do not count.
activeOnly	Default true: the search leaves out ceased, bankrupt, liquidating and restructuring companies, and UK companies that the register proposes to strike off. An id lookup returns the company with its status.
ukSicCodes	UK only. SIC 2007 codes or their first digits: 62012 (software development), 62 (all IT services). One of the company's up to 4 codes must start so.
ukPostcodes	UK only. The registered office's postcode: an area (M, SW), a district (SW1A, EC1) or a sector (SW1A 1). M is not ME; EC1 takes EC1V but not EC10.
ukIncorporatedFrom, ukIncorporatedTo	UK only. Incorporated on or after, on or before a day (YYYY-MM-DD).
ukLegalForms	UK only. Legal form codes: LTD, PLC, LLP, LP, CIC, CIO, OE (overseas entity) and more (the input form lists them).
ukStatuses	UK only. active, striking-off, liquidation, reorganisation (administration, voluntary arrangement), receivership. Replaces activeOnly for the UK.

Give a query, registerIds, a UK filter, or a mix. The UK filters need GB in countries. A company comes once per run, also when an id and the search both find it.

Examples:

• One company in each country: { "registerIds": ["923609016", "0112038-9", "00177041", "GB-COH-01285743"] }
• Czech companies only: { "query": "skoda auto", "countries": ["CZ"] }
• Also ceased companies: { "query": "nokia", "countries": ["FI"], "activeOnly": false }
• New UK software companies in EC1: { "countries": ["GB"], "ukSicCodes": ["62012"], "ukPostcodes": ["EC1"], "ukIncorporatedFrom": "2024-01-01" }
• UK companies in liquidation in Manchester: { "countries": ["GB"], "ukPostcodes": ["M"], "ukStatuses": ["liquidation"] }

Output (one item per company)

{
  "country": "NO",
  "registerId": "923609016",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "legalFormCode": "ASA",
  "legalForm": "Public limited company",
  "legalFormLocal": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
  "status": "active",
  "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
  "ceasedDate": null,
  "industryCode": "06.100",
  "industryCodeSystem": "SN",
  "industryDescription": "Utvinning av råolje",
  "industryCodes": null,
  "municipality": "STAVANGER",
  "municipalityCode": "1103",
  "postalCode": "4035",
  "region": null,
  "addressCountry": "NO",
  "registerUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
  "error": null,
  "message": null,
  "source": "Brønnøysund Register Centre, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret); Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter?organisasjonsnummer=923609016&size=100",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-11-04T22:30:00.000Z"
}

• status is one of active, pending (Finland: the registration or the start-up is not registered yet), striking-off (UK: the register proposes to strike the company off), liquidation, reorganisation, receivership (UK: a receiver acts for a creditor), bankruptcy and ceased. Czechia: ceased by its end date, bankruptcy while the insolvency register (ISIR) holds the company, liquidation when its name carries "v likvidaci". UK: reorganisation is administration or a voluntary arrangement; legalFormLocal keeps Companies House's own text.
• legalForm is English. legalFormLocal is the register's own name of the form.
• industryCode is the main activity in the national version of NACE:
  • Norway: SN (Statistics Norway), with the register's Norwegian description;
  • Finland: TOL (Statistics Finland), with the English description;
  • Czechia: CZ-NACE 2025, the predominant activity from ARES's statistical register, without a description;
  • UK: SIC 2007, the first of the company's codes, with its description. industryCodes lists all of them (up to 4).
• registrationDate: Norway the date of entry in the Central Coordinating Register, Finland the trade register's date (else the business id's), Czechia the date the company came into being, the UK the incorporation date.
• municipality and postalCode are the business address at municipality level. Norway and Czechia give the municipality, Finland and the UK the post town. The UK postalCode is the outward code only (W2, not W2 6BD). region is the Czech region (kraj) or the UK nation (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) when the register names it. The output has no street.
• UK items: sourceUrl names the monthly file they come from, such as BasicCompanyData-2026-11-01-part3_7.zip.
• A field that the register does not have is null.

The free items:

error	When
no-results	A register found no company that may be returned. The message counts what it left out and why.
not-found	A register id is not in its register (or the register removed it from publication).
withheld	A register id belongs to a sole trader or another person. The item carries only the id you gave.
too-many-results	ARES answers no search with more than 1,000 matches. Narrow the query.
source-failed	A register could not be read.

A UK id that is not found is not in the month's file of live companies: a dissolved company is not in it.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
company	USD 0.003	one company delivered

100 companies cost USD 0.30. 10,000 companies cost USD 30. You can set a maximum charge for a run.

Personal data

The output is company data. The actor does not call a register's roles, officers or owners service. It has no street, c/o line, PO box, telephone, e-mail or website, and UK postcodes stop at the outward code. Its filter leaves out sole traders and other persons by the register's own codes:

• Norway: ENK, PERS, TVAM, BO, KTRF and the personal sectors 8200 and 8500.
• Czechia: legal forms 101-108, 424 and 425.
• Finland: a legal form outside the known list.
• UK: a limited or Scottish partnership that its name shows to be one person's.

A branch of a foreign business passes only with a legal-entity word in its name. These rows are free, and STATS counts them per register.

A person's name can remain in a company named after a person.

Data source and terms

• Norway: the Brønnøysund Register Centre's open data API, https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api. Its documentation states: "License: Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0". NLOD allows reuse, also commercial reuse, with attribution. Each item names its source.
• Finland: the Finnish Patent and Registration Office's open data API, https://avoindata.prh.fi. Its terms: "Mention the original source when you use the data." Each item names PRH and the YTJ as its source. This actor is not a service of PRH.
• Czechia: ARES, https://ares.gov.cz, of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. Its terms: "Služby může využívat každý, pokud bude respektovat podmínky provozu" (anyone may use the services who respects the operating conditions). ARES states that its information is for information only ("pouze informativní charakter").
• United Kingdom: Companies House's Free Company Data Product, https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html, a monthly snapshot of the live companies (7 ZIP files of CSV, about 470 MB; the file of 2026-11-01 holds 5,711,779 companies). No API key. Companies House states (GOV.UK, "Our public task, copyright and Crown copyright", read 2026-11-05): "Companies House imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used." Its own material "is subject to Crown copyright protection and is made available on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated." Each item names Companies House as its source and the file it comes from.
• This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Brønnøysund Register Centre, PRH, the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic or Companies House.

Limits

• Each register searches names its own way. Norway and Czechia match the words in the name; Finland matches the current, former, parallel and auxiliary names. Use a register id for one company.
• The search reads at most 1,000 companies per register and run. ARES answers no search with more than 1,000 matches at all: narrow the query.
• Norway: sub-units (establishments) are not searched. A company removed from publication is not returned.
• Czechia: the industry code comes from a second ARES lookup. When it fails, the companies come without it (a warning in the log).
• UK: the data is as of the end of the previous month. Companies House renews the file within 5 working days of the month's end. A UK search reads the file until it has maxCompanies companies: a rare name or a narrow filter reads the whole file (about 7 minutes at the default 1,024 MB of memory; a run with 4,096 MB is faster).

Run summary

The run summary is in the default key-value store under SUMMARY, the counts under STATS. The data comes as the source publishes it, without warranty.

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