EU Supplier Watch

Monitor EU supplier VAT and legal-entity changes automatically.

EU Supplier Watch helps businesses monitor supplier information across the European Union using official public data from EU VIES and GLEIF.

Add a supplier once and check whether important company information has changed over time.

What it monitors

EU Supplier Watch can track changes in:

• VAT validation status
• Registered company name
• Registered address
• LEI status
• Legal entity information available through GLEIF

Instead of manually checking the same suppliers again and again, you can maintain a baseline and identify meaningful changes when they occur.

How it works

Single Check

Check one supplier using:

• EU country code
• VAT number
• Optional expected company name
• Optional LEI

The Actor retrieves available official information and returns a structured result.

Supplier Monitor

Submit multiple suppliers as a list.

On the first run, EU Supplier Watch creates a baseline for each processed supplier.

On later runs, it compares the latest official data with the previous baseline and reports whether anything meaningful changed.

Possible monitoring results include:

• BASELINE_CREATED
• NO_CHANGE
• CHANGED
• REVIEW
• SOURCE_ERROR

Set up your check

Enter a supplier in the Apify input form and run a factual VAT / LEI check.

Review the result

See status, identity score, and confidence in the real Apify output table.

Track repeated checks

Use repeated checks to keep a supplier baseline and spot meaningful updates over time.

Example use cases

EU Supplier Watch is useful for:

• Procurement teams
• Finance and operations teams
• Supplier management
• Vendor databases
• Marketplace operators
• B2B companies working with EU suppliers

Data sources

EU VIES

Used to validate EU VAT numbers and retrieve company information when available.

GLEIF

Used to retrieve Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and related legal-entity information when available.

Both are official public data sources.

Output

Results are returned as structured Dataset items that can be:

• viewed directly in Apify
• exported as JSON, CSV or Excel-compatible data
• accessed through the Apify API
• connected to automation workflows

Important limitations

EU Supplier Watch provides factual monitoring of publicly available VAT and legal-entity information.

It is not:

• KYC or AML verification
• Fraud detection
• Credit scoring
• Legal advice
• Sanctions screening

Sanctions screening is intentionally not included in the current version.

Source availability and returned company details depend on the official public databases.

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