European Company Registers: Ireland, France, Norway, Finland

Look up any company by name or registration number across four official government registers in a single run, and get back one clean, consistent record per company.

Built for KYB and onboarding checks, supplier verification, CRM enrichment and AI agents that need to confirm a company exists, is active, and where it is registered.

Why use it

• Four registers, one format. Every country comes back with the same fields: number, name, status, legal form, incorporation date, address, industry code, website and a link to the official register page.
• Official sources only. Data comes straight from each government register's public API or open data file, not from scraped third-party sites.
• Open-licensed and safe to reuse. Every source publishes its data for commercial reuse. The licence and attribution travel with every record.
• No personal data. Directors, officers, owners and sole traders are left out on purpose, so the output is company-level facts only.
• Agent-ready. Simple input, predictable JSON output, works through the Apify API and Apify MCP server.

Registers covered

Country	Register	Licence
Ireland	Companies Registration Office (CRO), daily file	CC BY 4.0
France	INSEE Sirene / RNE (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr)	Licence Ouverte 2.0
Norway	Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret)	NLOD 2.0
Finland	Finnish Patent and Registration Office (YTJ)	CC BY 4.0

Input

Field	What it does
queries	Company names or registration numbers, one per line.
countries	Which registers to search (IE, FR, NO, FI). Default: all four.
maxResultsPerQuery	Max matches per query in each register (1–50, default 5).
includeInactive	Include dissolved or inactive companies (default off).

Registration numbers are recognised automatically: Irish CRO numbers, French SIREN or SIRET, Norwegian organisation numbers and Finnish business IDs (e.g. 0112038-9). A number is only looked up in the registers whose format it fits.

{
  "queries": ["Ryanair Holdings", "552032534", "0112038-9"],
  "countries": ["IE", "FR", "FI"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 3
}

Output

{
  "query": "Ryanair Holdings",
  "country": "IE",
  "registry": "Companies Registration Office (CRO)",
  "companyNumber": "249885",
  "name": "RYANAIR HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY",
  "status": "active",
  "statusDetail": "Normal",
  "legalForm": "PLC - Public Limited Company",
  "incorporationDate": "1996-06-05",
  "dissolutionDate": null,
  "address": "RYANAIR DUBLIN OFFICE, AIRSIDE BUSINESS PARK, SWORDS CO. DUBLIN, SWORDS,DUBLIN",
  "postalCode": null,
  "city": "SWORDS CO. DUBLIN",
  "industryCode": "74.84",
  "industryDescription": null,
  "employees": null,
  "website": null,
  "commercialProspectingOptOut": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://opendata.cro.ie/dataset/companies",
  "licence": "Source: Companies Registration Office Ireland open data, CC BY 4.0.",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z"
}

status is always active or inactive; statusDetail keeps each register's own wording. employees is a headcount in Norway and an INSEE size band code in France. commercialProspectingOptOut is true for French companies that have objected to their data being used for direct marketing: respect it.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged a small fee per run start and per company record returned. No subscription. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it reaches it.

Good to know

• Ireland is searched from the CRO's daily open data file, so results reflect the register as of that morning.
• The French search covers companies and associations; individual entrepreneurs are excluded.
• Data is provided as published by each register. Registers can contain errors and delays; check the official register page linked in sourceUrl before relying on a record for a legal decision.
• Each register's licence requires attribution. Keep the licence field (or an equivalent credit) when you republish the data.

Use with AI agents

Add this Actor to your agent through the Apify MCP server and ask things like "Is Danone Oy an active company in Finland, and when was it registered?". The agent gets structured records back with the official source link.