EU Company Registry Lookup — France, Norway, Finland, Czechia, Poland

Check any company in five European business registries and get one clean row back. You get the registration number, legal name, status, VAT number, legal form, industry, registered address, founding date and a link to the official registry page. Look companies up by ID or VAT number, search them by name, or list newly registered companies by industry and postcode. The data comes live from the official open government registries, and you pay only per company returned.

What you get per company	Example
Registration number and type	923609016 · Organisasjonsnummer
Legal name, trade and former names	EQUINOR ASA · formerly STATOIL ASA
Status	active / inactive (deleted, bankruptcy, liquidation)
VAT number	NO923609016MVA, FR59542051180, CZ00177041
Legal form	Public limited company, SAS, s.r.o.
Industry code + description	62.01 · Computer programming activities
Registered address	Forusbeen 50, 4035 Stavanger
Founded / registered / closed dates	1972-09-18
Employees, website, share capital	where the registry publishes them
Official registry link	virksomhet.brreg.no/…/923609016

Who uses it

• KYB and compliance teams. Before onboarding a supplier or customer, they check that it exists, is active and uses the right legal name, VAT number and address.
• Finance and procurement. Invoicing and ERP teams check vendor master data in bulk against the official record.
• Sales and marketing. Get a daily or weekly list of new companies in your industry and region (e.g. every new IT company in Norway or Finland) and enrich CRM accounts with legal form, industry and address.
• AI agents and automations. Flat JSON with the same fields for every country works with CRMs, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or MCP clients.

Sources

Country	Registry	Lookup by ID	Search by name	List by filters
🇫🇷 France	Annuaire des Entreprises (INSEE Sirene + RNE)	SIREN, SIRET, FR VAT	✅	industry, postcode/département
🇳🇴 Norway	Brønnøysund Register Centre	organisation number, NO…MVA	✅	industry, postcode, registered from
🇫🇮 Finland	PRH / YTJ open data	Business ID (Y-tunnus)	✅	postcode, registered from (+ industry)
🇨🇿 Czechia	ARES (Ministry of Finance)	IČO, CZ VAT	✅	only together with a name
🇵🇱 Poland	KRS (Ministry of Justice)	KRS number	—	—

All five are official, public, no-login APIs published for reuse. The Actor does not scrape websites or get around any protection, and it cites the source and licence in every row.

How to use it

1. Look up known companies. Paste IDs or VAT numbers with a country prefix into Company IDs: FR 542051180, NO923609016MVA, FI 0112038-9, CZ 00177041, PL 0000019193.
2. Search by name. Add names to Company names and pick countries. Results must contain every word of the name, so you do not get loose matches.
3. Find new companies. Leave names empty. Set Industry codes (NACE, e.g. 62 for IT, 41 for construction), optionally Postal codes, and Registered from. Then add a daily or weekly Schedule in Apify and connect it to e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook.

Example input

{
    "companyIds": ["FR 542051180", "NO 923609016", "CZ 00177041"],
    "names": ["nordic semiconductor"],
    "countries": ["FR", "NO", "FI", "CZ"],
    "industryCodes": [],
    "registeredFrom": null,
    "onlyActive": true,
    "maxResults": 100
}

New IT companies in Norway and Finland since 1 September:

{ "countries": ["NO", "FI"], "industryCodes": ["62"], "registeredFrom": "2026-09-01", "maxResults": 500 }

Example output

{
    "country": "FI",
    "companyId": "0112038-9",
    "companyIdType": "Y-tunnus (Business ID)",
    "name": "Nokia Oyj",
    "legalForm": "Public limited company",
    "status": "active",
    "statusDetail": null,
    "foundedDate": "1896-12-19",
    "vatId": "FI01120389",
    "industryCode": "70100",
    "industryDescription": "Activities of head offices",
    "website": "https://www.nokia.com",
    "street": "Karakaari 7",
    "postalCode": "02610",
    "city": "ESPOO",
    "address": "Karakaari 7, 02610 ESPOO",
    "registryUrl": "https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/0112038-9",
    "source": "Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) – YTJ open data, Finland",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0 (source: PRH / YTJ)"
}

Pricing

Pay per company: $3 per 1 000 companies ($0.003 each), plus a tiny Actor start fee. There are no proxy, browser or subscription costs.

• You pay only for companies written to the results. IDs that were not found, sole traders skipped for privacy and duplicates cost nothing.
• Max companies and Apify's maximum cost per run cap what you spend. The Actor stops cleanly at the limit.
• Checking 1 000 suppliers costs about $3. A daily list of new companies in one industry costs a few cents.

Good to know

• Companies only, no personal data. Sole traders and other records about individuals (French entrepreneurs individuels, Norwegian ENK, Czech OSVČ, bankruptcy estates) are skipped because their name is a person's name. Directors, shareholders and contact persons are never collected.
• VAT numbers: France is computed from the SIREN (every French company has one). Norway, Finland and Czechia show a VAT number only when the company is in the VAT register. Poland returns NIP and REGON in taxIds.
• Industry codes are the national versions of NACE (NAF, SN, TOL, CZ-NACE, PKD). Filters use the NACE prefix, so 62 matches 62.01, 62.02 and so on. Descriptions are in English, except for Norway, where the registry publishes Norwegian text.
• Limits of the sources: France cannot filter by registration date, so a date filter without names skips France. Czech ARES answers a name search only when it matches fewer than 1 000 entities. Poland's open API looks companies up by KRS number only.
• The SUMMARY record in the key-value store shows companies per country, IDs not found, skipped records and why the run stopped.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run queries the registries live, so you get the record as the registry publishes it at that moment.

Can I add other countries? Countries are added when their registry offers a free open API. Tell us which one you need in an issue on the Actor page.

Something is wrong or missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. Fixes are usually quick.