Cyprus Company Check + EU VAT (VIES) & LEI Validator

Check a Cypriot company in seconds, in English. Look up any of the 574,000+ companies, overseas companies, partnerships and business names in the official Cyprus register by name or registration number (HE / ΗΕ, AE, OE, BN). Get the status in English (registered, struck off, in liquidation...), company type, registration date, registered office (Greek + Latin transliteration) and the LEI with its live GLEIF status. In the same run, validate any EU VAT number live in VIES.

Built for KYC / onboarding, accounts payable, invoice checks, B2B sales and due diligence on Cyprus counterparties.

Why this Actor

• The official register search is Greek-first and one-at-a-time. This Actor does bulk lookups with English status labels.
• Accepts every registration-number format: HE165, ΗΕ 165 (Greek letters), he-165, or just 165.
• LEI enrichment: 14,000+ Cyprus companies are matched to their Legal Entity Identifier, and the LEI status (ISSUED / LAPSED) is refreshed live from GLEIF.
• VIES VAT validation for all EU countries + Northern Ireland, with format pre-checks (badly formatted numbers are rejected locally and not charged), automatic retries when a national service is down, and a same-day cache so the same number is never sent to VIES twice a day (VIES fair-use rule).

Input

Field	Example	Notes
companies	["HE165", "Wargaming"]	Registration numbers or names (Latin or Greek)
vatNumbers	["IE6388047V", "LU20260743"]	Any EU VAT number with country prefix
maxMatchesPerQuery	3	Matches returned per name search
activeOnly	true	Skip struck-off/dissolved names
includeLei	true	Live GLEIF status
includeTraderDetails	false	Return the name/address VIES holds (when the country shares it)

Example output

{
  "recordType": "company",
  "query": "HE165",
  "registrationNumber": "HE165",
  "name": "BANK OF CYPRUS PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED",
  "organisationType": "Company",
  "companyType": "Public company",
  "status": "Registered",
  "isActive": true,
  "registrationDate": "1943-12-31",
  "registeredOffice": {"asPublished": "Στασίνου, 51, Αγία Παρασκευή, Στρόβολος, 2002, Λευκωσία, Κύπρος", "latin": "Stasinou, 51, Agia Paraskevi, Strovolos, 2002, Nicosia, Cyprus"},
  "lei": "PQ0RAP85KK9Z75ONZW93",
  "leiRegistrationStatus": "ISSUED",
  "registerSnapshotDate": "2026-09-29"
}

{ "recordType": "vat", "vatNumber": "IE6388047V", "countryCode": "IE", "status": "checked", "valid": true, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T04:30:12Z" }

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client with Apify's hosted MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jyaussie/cyprus-company-vat-check

Example prompts:

• "Check Cyprus company HE165 and validate EU VAT number LU20260743 in VIES."
• "Is this Cyprus company still active, and what is its LEI?"
• "Validate these EU VAT numbers: DE..., FR..."

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.015 per company record returned
• $0.005 per VAT number checked in VIES

Not-found companies, badly formatted VAT numbers and VIES service errors are free.

Data sources, licences & limits

• Cyprus register: Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property, published on the National Open Data Portal (data.gov.cy) under CC BY 4.0. Statuses are translated to English and addresses transliterated by this Actor. The Actor uses the register snapshot shown in registerSnapshotDate, so changes from the last few weeks may be missing; confirm critical checks on the official register. Some companies are registered under a Greek name (e.g. ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ), so try the Greek name too.
• LEI: GLEIF, CC0.
• VAT: European Commission VIES, which queries national databases in real time. Use it, as VIES requires, to confirm the VAT numbers of your trading partners. The Commission is not responsible for the accuracy of national data.
• Privacy: no directors, shareholders or other officer data is used. Registered-office addresses are returned only for companies and overseas companies, not for business names or partnerships (which may belong to individuals). VIES trader names/addresses are off by default.
• Not affiliated with the Cyprus Registrar, the European Commission or GLEIF.