EU Business Data Search

Search 21 EU business data sources in one query — institution registries, capital-markets reference data, trade and economy datasets, and governance or compliance records.

• ✅ Search 21 EU business data sources across institution registries, market-reference data, trade statistics, customs, sanctions, transparency, and VAT-related checks
• ✅ Get ECB, EBA, EIOPA, ESMA, Eurostat, TARIC, EU sanctions, Transparency Register, CORDIS, GLEIF, and VIES-related records in one workflow
• ✅ Covers 8 institution registries, 4 capital-markets sources, 4 trade and economy sources, and 5 governance and compliance sources
• ✅ Export results as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or connect it to Apify MCP, API, Make, n8n, and Zapier
• ✅ Current Apify listing is pay per usage, so you can start with small runs and scale only when the workflow proves useful

EU business research is spread across many different systems. One workflow may need regulated-entity registers, another may need sanctions or transparency checks, and another may need trade, tariff, or economic context. This Actor combines those public EU datasets into one search layer, so you can run one query across the active source set and then export or automate the results.

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What you can do with it

1. Search EU-regulated financial institutions across ECB, EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA

One of the strongest uses of this Actor is regulated-entity discovery. If you want to check whether a bank, payment institution, insurer, pension entity, or investment firm appears in official European supervisory datasets, you usually need to search several regulator-specific systems one by one.

This Actor combines the active institution-registry set into one workflow.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Deutsche Bank, Allianz, BNP, or an entity keyword
Categories	Institution registries only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
EBA credit and payment institutions	Institution name, jurisdiction, register metadata
ECB MFI and supervised banks	Bank name, supervisory status, euro-area context
EIOPA insurance and IORP registers	Entity name, country, insurance or pension metadata
ESMA investment firms	Firm name, member-state context, registry metadata

This is useful for regulated-entity verification, onboarding checks, financial-sector due diligence, and AI assistants that need one entry point across EU supervisory registries.

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2. Search ESMA capital-markets reference data

This Actor is not limited to entity registries. It also includes ESMA reference datasets that support market-structure and capital-markets workflows, including DVCAP, FIRDS, FITRS, and SSR exempted-shares data.

These are different from classic company registers, but they matter if your workflow involves financial instruments, trading transparency, or market-reference checks.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	share, bond, equity, ISIN, or a market keyword
Categories	Capital markets only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
ESMA DVCAP / FIRDS / FITRS	Instrument or dataset metadata, publication date, reference fields
ESMA SSR exempted shares	Share or issuer-related exemption metadata

This is useful for market-reference research, trading-data workflows, instrument lookup support, and internal regulatory-data pipelines that need one search layer across ESMA market datasets.

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3. Search EU trade, tariff, and economic context data

Some EU business workflows need economic or trade context rather than only entity names. This Actor includes TARIC customs tariff data plus Eurostat trade statistics, business demographics, and labor-market datasets.

That makes it useful when you want to move from entity search into sector, tariff, trade, or market-context research without switching tools.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	automotive, machinery, tariff, employment
Categories	Trade and economy only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
TARIC customs	Tariff code, measure context, customs metadata
Eurostat trade statistics	Trade series, period, value, reporting context
Eurostat business and labor datasets	Dataset labels, country context, period, values

This is useful for market-entry analysis, trade research, tariff support, macro context building, and business-intelligence workflows that need EU public economic data in the same search layer.

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4. Search EU sanctions, transparency, research, entity-mapping, and VAT-related records

The governance and compliance side of this Actor includes a mixed set of public EU sources: sanctions, the Transparency Register, CORDIS research projects, GLEIF mapping, and VIES VAT validation.

These are not one uniform schema, and that is exactly why combining them is useful. Depending on the search term, you may want sanctions exposure, lobbying disclosure, research-project context, legal-entity mapping, or VAT validation support.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Rosneft, Brussels, Horizon, or a VAT number
Categories	Governance and compliance only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
EU sanctions list	Name, listing metadata, sanctions context
Transparency Register	Organization name, register metadata, transparency details
CORDIS / GLEIF / VIES	Project metadata, entity-mapping data, or VAT-validation context depending on source

This is useful for compliance screening, governance research, legal-entity resolution, grant and research monitoring, and mixed due-diligence workflows across EU public datasets.

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5. Use one Actor for mixed EU business discovery in AI and automation workflows

Many teams do not need only one source family. They need one search layer that can look up a company, institution, market term, tariff topic, or compliance term across several EU public systems at once.

That is the role of this Actor. Instead of integrating ECB, EBA, EIOPA, ESMA, Eurostat, TARIC, sanctions, and governance sources separately, you can use one Actor as the discovery layer.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Allianz
Categories	Institution registries + governance and compliance
How many results	25 per source

What your assistant or automation gets back:

Source family	Returned data
Institution registries	Bank, insurer, investment-firm, and related registry rows
Capital markets	ESMA reference-data rows if enabled
Trade and economy	Trade, tariff, business-demographics, or labor-market rows if enabled
Governance and compliance	Sanctions, transparency, CORDIS, GLEIF, or VIES rows if enabled

This is useful for internal research assistants, workflow automation, compliance operations, market mapping, and spreadsheet-based business research that needs one EU public-data entry point.

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How to use (no code required)

1. Click "Try for Free" at the top of this page
2. Type one or more search terms — company names, institutions, sectors, identifiers, tariff topics, sanctions targets, or VAT numbers
3. Choose which categories to search:
   • institution registries
   • capital markets
   • trade and economy
   • governance and compliance
4. Set how many results you want per source
5. Click Start — the Actor queries the enabled EU data sources and returns the results in the Dataset tab

You can then export the results as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Because the Actor is listed as pay per usage, it is straightforward to begin with a small run, see which source families are useful for your workflow, and then expand the scope.

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What you get back

Each result comes back as one row in a dataset. The exact columns vary by source family, because a supervisory-registry row, a Eurostat statistic, a sanctions entry, and a tariff record do not share the same schema.

Across the dataset, you will typically see:

• _product_id
• _source
• _search_term
• _collected_at

Then source-specific fields such as:

• Institution registries: entity name, country, register metadata, supervisory context
• Capital markets: instrument or file metadata, dates, publication context
• Trade and economy: series labels, country or area, period, values
• Governance and compliance: sanctions metadata, transparency metadata, project info, entity mapping, or VAT-related fields

Every row tells you which source it came from and which search term matched, so it is easy to split outputs by source family, filter for one regulator or dataset type, or move the results into downstream workflows.

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Coverage

This Actor currently searches 21 active EU business data sources:

Category	Count	Coverage
Institution registries	8	EBA, ECB, EIOPA, and ESMA regulated-entity registries
Capital markets	4	ESMA DVCAP, FIRDS, FITRS, and SSR exempted shares
Trade and economy	4	TARIC customs plus Eurostat trade, business, and labor data
Governance and compliance	5	CORDIS, sanctions, transparency register, GLEIF mapping, and VIES VAT validation

The current active maps in the Actor are:

• 8 institution registries
• 4 capital-markets sources
• 4 trade and economy sources
• 5 governance and compliance sources

That mix matters because this Actor is not a single EU company register. It is a combined EU business-data discovery layer across regulatory, market, trade, and governance datasets.

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Pricing

This Actor is currently listed on Apify as pay per usage.

The safest place to confirm the live commercial terms is the pricing tab:

• https://apify.com/lentic_clockss/eu-business-data-search/pricing

If you want to keep runs small, the easiest approach is to:

• search only the source families you actually need
• start with one or two search terms
• lower maxResultsPerSource for exploratory runs

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Connect to your tools

You can use this Actor directly in the Apify UI, or connect it to automation and AI workflows:

Platform	How to connect
Apify UI	Run it directly and export results
Apify API	Trigger runs and fetch datasets programmatically
Make.com	Use the Actor ID lentic_clockss/eu-business-data-search
n8n / Zapier / ChatGPT / Claude	Use the same Actor ID via Apify MCP or API

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• EU Health & Compliance Search — EMA, surveillance, and compliance datasets
• Global Company Search — wider cross-country company and registry search

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Also Available

• Direct API: https://opendata.best/api/v1/data
• Postman Collection: Fork and test
• GitHub: Collection source files