Finnish Trade Register
The Finnish Trade Register (Finnish: Kaupparekisteri, Swedish: Handelsregistret) is a company register in Finland. It provides official information on businesses in the whole country, including data from current and old register entries, articles of association, partnership agreements or rules. It is part of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
Registrar
The register is maintained by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.[citation needed]
Content
The content of the Trade Register is specified by Finnish law.[1]
Identifier
When a start-up notification is filed with the Trade Register or the Register of Foundations, the new business or foundation receives its Business ID (Finnish: Y-tunnus, Yritys- ja yhteisötunnus, Swedish: FO-nummer, Företags- och organisationsnumret).[citation needed]
Following Limited Liability Companies Act of Finland (624/2006; amendments up to 981/2011 included; osakeyhtiölaki) Chapter 3 Shares Section 15 — Share register and shareholder register Finnish companies independently maintain registers of shareholders. The transition period has to be completed by 01.07.2020 when all Finnish companies must inform the government agency about their beneficial owners whose share is equal or more than 25%.[citation needed]
Company can be represented by both the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Procurator (Fin: Prokuristit), who is the official representative of the company in all government and trade matters.[citation needed]
Any official action of any authorized persons of the company may be registered and/or certified by the state magistrate (Fin: Maistraati) of the Republic of Finland, including by state notary (Fin: Julkinen Notaary). The document certified in the magistrate is the official government trade document which has full legal force. https://www.maistraatti.fi/ [citation needed]
Public companies
Public Finnish companies whose shares are listed on stock exchanges disclose information in annual reports.
Public companies reveal their structure on its official sites, on official sites of stock exchanges were their shares traded or on official exchange information platforms e.g. NASDAQ, MarketScreener, Bloomberg, Reuters and others.[citation needed]
http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com https://www.marketscreener.com https://www.bloomberg.com https://www.reuters.com
Public availability
The particulars reported by a company in its notice to the Trade Register and the documents attached to the notice are all public information. A part of this information can be accessed in English free of charge via internet from the government services
Purpose
Provider of legal documents
The Trade Register also delivers certificates. For example, a certificate from the book of original entries verifies that a notice has been submitted to the Register.[citation needed]
Similar registers
Another set of
See also
- List of company registers
External links
- National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland - Trade Register
- Further details of the Business ID can be found on the Finnish Business Information System, which is jointly maintained by the National Board of Patents and Registration (NBPR) and the Tax Administration.
References
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"Kaupparekisterilaki 2.2.1979/129 (Finnish Trade Register Law)". Finlex.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Ministry of Justice. February 2, 1979. Retrieved January 10, 2019.