EU Company Registry Lookup: FR, NO, FI, EE + VIES VAT + LEI

What does EU Company Registry Lookup do?

EU Company Registry Lookup searches the official business registers of France, Norway, Finland and Estonia in one run and returns every company in one normalized schema. Look companies up by name or registry ID, validate EU VAT numbers in VIES, and add the LEI code from GLEIF. It is built for KYB (Know Your Business), supplier due diligence, B2B lead enrichment and AI agents that need verified company data.

Sources are official, keyless open-data APIs:

• France: INSEE SIRENE and RNE via API Recherche d'entreprises (annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr)
• Norway: Brønnøysund Register Centre, Enhetsregisteret
• Finland: PRH YTJ open data (Finnish Patent and Registration Office)
• Estonia: e-Business Register open data (RIK)
• VAT: EU VIES VAT number validation
• LEI: GLEIF API

Run it on the Apify platform and you get an API, scheduling, webhooks, integrations (Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack), monitoring, and an MCP tool for AI agents. Try it now: the prefilled input searches "Nokia" in all four registers, validates VAT numbers and adds LEI codes in about 15 seconds.

Why use this EU company lookup?

• KYB and onboarding. Confirm that a customer or supplier exists, is active, and has a valid VAT number before you sign or pay.
• VAT number validation. Bulk-check EU VAT numbers in VIES for $0.50 per 1,000 and get the registered trader name and address. Norwegian MVA numbers are checked in the Brønnøysund VAT register.
• B2B lead enrichment. Add legal form, NACE industry code and label, registration date, employee range, address and website to CRM records.
• Due diligence and compliance. Status (active, ceased, bankrupt, in liquidation), LEI and LEI status, with a link to the official source page for each company.
• AI agents and LLM tools. Clean JSON with stable field names works as a tool call through the Apify MCP server. Ask "is FR89383474814 valid and who is it?" and get a structured answer.
• One schema instead of six APIs. No need to learn SIRENE codes, Norwegian HAL responses, Finnish code sets or VIES error formats.
• GDPR-aware. Sole traders and other natural persons are excluded by default, and personal data of French executives is removed from raw records.

How to look up EU companies

1. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
2. Pick a Mode: search by name, look up by registry ID, validate VAT numbers, or look up LEI codes.
3. Select Countries (France, Norway, Finland, Estonia) for search and lookup.
4. Enter company names or registry IDs in "queries", or VAT numbers in "vatNumbers".
5. Choose enrichment: VIES VAT check (on by default) and GLEIF LEI (optional).
6. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

Input

All fields are on the Input tab. The main ones:

Field	What it does
mode	search (by name), lookup (by registry ID), vat (VIES validation), lei (GLEIF)
countries	FR, NO, FI, EE. Used by search and lookup
queries	Company names, registry IDs (383474814, 923609016, 0112038-9, 12417834, or NO:923609016) or LEIs
vatNumbers	VAT numbers with prefix, e.g. FR89383474814, EE101335276, NO923609016MVA, DE123456789
maxItemsPerQuery	Max companies per query and country (1 to 500)
industryCodes	Keep only companies whose main NACE code starts with these codes, e.g. 62, 62.01, 47.64 (FR, NO, FI)
includeVies	Validate each company's VAT number in VIES
includeLei	Find the LEI in GLEIF by registry ID
estoniaBulkEnrichment	Add Estonian VAT number and registration date from the daily open-data file
excludeNaturalPersons	Skip sole traders (default on)
onlyActive	Skip ceased, deleted, bankrupt or liquidating companies
includeRaw	Keep the original source record in raw

Example input: IT companies named "consulting" in France, Norway and Finland, active only:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "countries": ["FR", "NO", "FI"],
    "queries": ["consulting"],
    "industryCodes": ["62"],
    "onlyActive": true,
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 20
}

Example input for VAT validation:

{
    "mode": "vat",
    "vatNumbers": ["FR89383474814", "EE101335276", "NO923609016MVA", "IT00743110157"]
}

Output

Each dataset item is one company. Example (raw omitted, attribution shortened):

{
    "country": "FR",
    "registryId": "383474814",
    "name": "AIRBUS",
    "legalForm": "SAS, société par actions simplifiée",
    "legalFormCode": "5710",
    "status": "active",
    "statusDetail": "Active",
    "registrationDate": "1991-10-18",
    "address": {
        "street": "2 ROND-POINT DEWOITINE",
        "postalCode": "31700",
        "city": "BLAGNAC",
        "country": "FR",
        "full": "2 ROND-POINT DEWOITINE 31700 BLAGNAC"
    },
    "industryCode": "30.30Z",
    "industryLabel": "Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery",
    "industryClassification": "NAF rev. 2 (label: NACE Rev. 2)",
    "employeesRange": "10000+",
    "vatNumber": "FR89383474814",
    "vatValid": true,
    "vatCheckSource": "VIES",
    "vatName": "SAS AIRBUS",
    "vatAddress": "2 RPT EMILE DEWOITINE, 31700 BLAGNAC",
    "lei": "529900FCMZ4LKXFD0R69",
    "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
    "website": null,
    "isNaturalPerson": false,
    "source": "FR_SIRENE",
    "sourceUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/383474814",
    "licence": "Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)",
    "attribution": "France: INSEE SIRENE and RNE via API Recherche d'entreprises ... VAT check: VIES, European Commission ... LEI: GLEIF, CC0 1.0 ...",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-27T10:53:51.616Z",
    "raw": null
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. The Output tab has four views: Overview, KYB and VAT check, B2B lead enrichment, and Sources and licences. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists counts, skipped natural persons, IDs not found and errors.

Data fields

Field	Description
country, registryId	Country and national ID: SIREN (FR), organisasjonsnummer (NO), Y-tunnus (FI), registrikood (EE)
name, legalForm, legalFormCode	Registered name and legal form
status, statusDetail	active or inactive, plus the source's wording (ceased, bankrupt, in liquidation)
registrationDate	Creation or first registration date
address	street, postalCode, city, country, full
industryCode, industryLabel	NAF (FR), SN (NO), TOL (FI) in NACE format, with label. Estonia: not available
employeesRange, employeesCount	INSEE headcount band (FR) or exact count (NO)
vatNumber, vatValid, vatName, vatAddress, vatError	VAT number and VIES answer
lei, leiStatus	GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier
website	When the registry API has it (NO, FI)
isNaturalPerson	True for sole traders
source, sourceUrl, licence, attribution	Where the data comes from and the licence text you must keep
raw	Original source record

How much does it cost to look up EU companies?

This Actor uses pay per event pricing:

• $4.00 per 1,000 company results ($0.004 each)
• $0.50 per 1,000 VIES VAT checks ($0.0005 each). Failed checks, such as a member state being offline, are not charged.
• A tiny start fee per run.

Bulk VAT validation costs $0.50 per 1,000 numbers, the cheapest VIES checker on the Store (others charge $1 to $5 per 1,000). In VAT mode, a number with no linked registry record (for example DE, IT, NL, ES) is charged only the VIES check ($0.0005). French, Finnish, Norwegian and Estonian numbers that match a registry record also return the full company record: one result plus one VIES check ($0.0045). Not charged: numbers with a wrong format (skipped before any call), failed VIES checks such as a member state being offline (saved with vatError), unknown IDs and duplicates. Set Maximum cost per run to cap spend. The Actor stops before it would go over the cap, also when many lookups run in parallel.

A KYB check of 200 suppliers with VAT validation costs about $0.90. Validating 10,000 German or Italian VAT numbers costs about $5. With the Apify free plan ($5 monthly credit) you can check about 1,100 companies with VAT validation each month. Compute is included.

Tips and advanced options

• Look up by ID when you have it. Lookup mode is exact and faster than name search. Prefix IDs with the country (FI:0112038-9) to skip format guessing.
• SIRET works too. A 14-digit French SIRET is reduced to its SIREN.
• Industry filter. industryCodes matches the start of the main activity code, so 62 keeps all IT services and 62.01 only programming. Norway is filtered on the server. France and Finland are filtered after the name search, so a rare industry may return fewer results than maxItemsPerQuery. Estonian results have no industry code and are skipped when the filter is set. French codes from before 2008 (older NAF) have no label.
• Norwegian names common among sole traders (for example "Hansen") can return fewer results than maxItemsPerQuery. Brreg cannot filter ENK on the server, so the Actor scans up to 30 pages and skips them.
• Bad VAT numbers do not stop the run. Numbers with the wrong length or pattern for their country are skipped and listed in SUMMARY.invalidInput.
• VAT mode links registries. French, Finnish and Norwegian VAT numbers are matched to their registry record automatically. Turn on the Estonian open-data file to match Estonian VAT numbers.
• LEI lookups are rate limited to one per second by GLEIF. Leave includeLei off for large batches unless you need it.
• Estonia returns at most 10 companies per name query because the public autocomplete is capped. Use more specific names.
• Finnish name search is loose on the PRH side. The Actor runs a whole-word query first and ranks results by name match.
• Speed. Each host has its own rate limiter (France 5/s, Norway 5/s, Finland 2/s, Estonia 2/s, VIES 2/s, GLEIF 1/s). VIES answers take 5 to 7 seconds, so VAT checks run in parallel.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Is this legal? Yes. All sources are official open data published for reuse: Licence Ouverte 2.0 (France), NLOD 2.0 (Norway), CC BY 4.0 (Finland, Estonia, VIES content) and CC0 (GLEIF). Each item carries the required attribution. Keep it when you republish the data.

What about GDPR? Registries include sole traders whose business address is often a home address. The Actor skips natural persons by default (French entrepreneurs individuels and non-diffusible records, Norwegian ENK, Estonian FIE, GLEIF sole proprietors). In VAT mode a sole trader's number is still validated, but name and address are withheld. French records without any legal form (stubs that often carry a person's name) are treated the same way. French executives who are natural persons are removed from raw records, and phone and e-mail fields are removed from Norwegian raw records. If you switch the filter off, you are responsible for having a lawful basis.

Why is vatValid null? VIES answers only when the member state's service is up. Check vatError (for example MS_UNAVAILABLE) and try again later.

Why no Estonian VAT number? The public Estonian autocomplete has no VAT field. Turn on estoniaBulkEnrichment to add it from the official daily file.

Why no Estonian industry code or website? The public autocomplete and the daily basic-data file do not include them. The e-Business Register web page shows them, but this Actor uses open-data APIs only.

What happens if my input is invalid? The run still ends SUCCEEDED and you pay only the small start fee. No company or VIES check is charged. The dataset gets one help row, and the run status message says the same:

{
    "error": true,
    "errorCode": "EMPTY_INPUT",
    "message": "No company name or registry ID in \"queries\".",
    "howToFix": "Add at least one company name or registry ID to \"queries\" ..."
}

Codes: EMPTY_INPUT (nothing to search), INVALID_INPUT (an unsupported country, NACE code, LEI or VAT format, or a value out of range) and NO_RESULTS (the registries answered but nothing matched). If every registry call fails because a source is down, the run fails instead, so you can tell an outage from an input problem.

Which countries are next? Tell us in the Issues tab. Custom registry integrations are available on request.

Found a bug or a missing field? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we will fix it quickly.