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Table of Contents
- Data Sources
- Company Identifiers
- Search Capabilities
- Prefill mode (fast retrieval)
- Quirks & Gotchas
- Mappings
- Data Availability
- Example API Responses
Data Sources
Croatia uses four official sources: Sudreg for corporate data, FINA for financial filings, the UBO Register (RSV) for beneficial ownership, and EU VIES for VAT validation. Company profile data comes from Sudreg, the court register, which is the source of truth for structured company attributes. ThetaxId verification status on the company comes from EU VIES.
- Sudreg (Sudski registar / Court Registry): Operated by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia. We use two access methods:
- Sudreg API: Provides company identifiers, legal form, status, registered address, share capital, and business activities (NKD codes). Used for search by MBS/OIB, prefill profile, and as part of company profile. Accessible at sudreg-data.gov.hr
- Sudreg portal: Primary source for legal representatives, supervisory board members, shareholders, and document listings. Also used for name-based search. Accessible at sudreg.pravosudje.hr
- RGFI/FINA (Registar godisnjih financijskih izvjestaja): The Annual Financial Statements Registry, operated by FINA (Financial Agency), accessible at rgfi.fina.hr. Used exclusively for financial document retrieval (balance sheets, profit & loss statements, notes to financial statements, profit distribution decisions). It is not a structured data source for company attributes.
- RSV (Registar stvarnih vlasnika / Croatian UBO Register): The beneficial ownership register operated by FINA. Source of Ultimate Beneficial Owner data and the official Beneficial Ownership Certificate, delivered manually in about 1-3 business days.
- EU VIES: Used to validate the Croatian VAT number (HR + OIB) returned on the company.
Financial statements from FINA RGFI can take longer to deliver than register
data. Sudreg provides structured company data, while its web portal is used
for personnel and document data.
Company Identifiers
Query Identifiers
Identifiers in API Response
Once you retrieve company data, theidentifiers object contains all available identifiers for that entity:
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier.company.identifiers.lei is optional. It is returned when the court-register number (mbs) matches exactly one LEI through a GLEIF registration or validation reference.
The Legal Entity Identifier has 20 uppercase alphanumeric characters, ending in two check digits.
Coverage varies by entity. An absent lei does not prove that the company has no LEI. Lapsed, retired or merged LEIs may be returned; annulled LEIs are excluded.
Search Capabilities
Active companies only
The register itself excludes companies that are no longer active when you search withactiveOnly=true. Name searches ask the register for active companies only. Registration-number and tax-number lookups are filtered on the status the register reports.
Prefill mode (fast retrieval)
UsePOST /v2/company with mode: "prefill" for fast, cost-effective access to company profile data in Croatia, optimized for prefill requests.
Data comes from Sudreg structured company data only (no personnel data), providing company identifiers, legal form, status, address, share capital, and activity codes.
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Company Status
Company status is determined deterministically from Sudreg data.Records the register flags as inconsistent are returned as inactive with a
standardized status of Unknown.
Legal Forms
Croatia’s Court Registry (Sudreg) maintains 26 standardized legal form types. The mapping is deterministic (no AI inference) with ISO 20275 codes from the GLEIF Entity Legal Forms Code List. Unrecognized forms are enriched with ISO 20275 codes via database lookup.Key Business Forms
Partnerships
Sole Proprietorships
Cooperatives
Public & Institutional Entities
Branch & Foreign Entities
European Entity Forms
Special & Administrative Forms
Legal Representatives
Legal representatives are extracted from Sudreg. The classification as legal representative (vs other key person) is deterministic, determined by which section of the profile the person appears in. Role names are preserved in Croatian. Known titles from the official Court Register function catalogue have fixed English translations and standardized meanings; unlisted portal titles may require enrichment. Recorded representation text, when explicit, supplies sole or joint signing mode and its original qualifications. A title alone supplies no signing mode. When available, astartDate is extracted from the effective date published in the register (e.g., “od 27.12.2024. godine”).
Common roles observed in the registry:
Legal representatives are returned as individuals. Each representative
includes their OIB (when available) and residence address.
Other Key Persons
Members of the supervisory board (nadzorni odbor) are mapped to otherKeyPersons with a default standardized role of Supervisory Board Member. Known titles have fixed English translations and standardized meanings; unlisted titles may require enrichment.
Shareholders
Shareholders are extracted from Sudreg for all company types that list them. Both individuals and corporate shareholders are supported.Shareholder percentages are not published. Sudreg does not provide
ownership percentages or capital contribution amounts, so shareholders carry
names, addresses, and identifiers. When a company has a single shareholder,
sharePercentage is returned as 100.Activity Code Mapping
Sudreg declares one prevailing activity (“pretežita djelatnost”) per company, always with a structured NKD code. The wider business scope mixes structured NKD entries with free-text descriptions in Croatian (e.g., “Racunalno programiranje; Savjetovanje u vezi s racunalima”). Sudreg stamps each structured NKD entry with the revision it was filed under (NKD 1994, NKD 2007 or NKD 2025).NACE is published as Rev. 2.1: NKD 2007 codes are converted through the official correspondence table (a code can change, and a class that Rev. 2.1 split is published at the closest group or division covering all its successors), NKD 2025 codes are already Rev. 2.1 and pass through unchanged, and NKD 1994 codes have no NACE equivalent and appear only under NKD and NKD_1994. Free-text descriptions are processed via AI batch enrichment to derive NACE and ISIC codes.
Main activity. The prevailing activity (“pretežita djelatnost”) declared
by Sudreg is flagged with
isMainActivity: true on the NKD classification and
listed first. Sudreg does not stamp a revision on it, so it appears under
NKD but not under a revision-specific key. The NACE and ISIC codes derived from it inherit the flag. Codes
without the flag are not necessarily secondary: absence means the register did
not mark them. Codes derived from free-text descriptions carry
isAIInferred: true, and the original Croatian descriptions are preserved in
the activityDescription field, separated by semicolons.Ultimate Beneficial Owners
Beneficial ownership comes from the official Izvadak iz Registra stvarnih vlasnika (RSV). RequestultimateBeneficialOwners in verification mode for structured data, or order ultimateBeneficialOwnersCertificate from availableDocuments for the source PDF. Delivery is asynchronous and can take several business days. Follow the existing request through webhooks or polling; do not submit repeated orders while it is pending. If the certificate cannot be obtained, the request reports an error rather than a successful empty result.
Data Availability
Data Availability Matrix
Legend: ✅ Available | ❌ Not Available | Async = Asynchronous processing
Documents by Company Type
Croatia provides document access through three official sources: Sudreg for corporate filings, RGFI/FINA for financial documents, and the UBO Register (RSV) for the Beneficial Ownership Certificate, obtained through a local partner.All Company Types
Financial Document Types (from FINA RGFI)
Registry Document Types (from Sudreg)
Complete Registry Document Type List
Complete Registry Document Type List
Foreign Branch Documents
For foreign branches registered in Croatia, additional documents are available viaotherDocuments[]. Certified translations of the founder’s financial statements are returned under financialStatements[]:
All documents are delivered in PDF format. Some historical registry documents
may be in TIFF format. Document names are translated from Croatian to English
using a deterministic mapping with AI fallback for unrecognized names.
Financial documents from FINA that are served as HTML are automatically
converted to PDF.
Example API Responses
All examples use placeholder data. Query:POST /v2/company with { "id": "<mbs>", "countryCode": "HR", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"] }
Active j.d.o.o. (Simple Limited Liability Company)
Active j.d.o.o. (Simple Limited Liability Company)
Active d.d. (Joint Stock Company), with Supervisory Board
Active d.d. (Joint Stock Company), with Supervisory Board
Closed Company (Struck Off)
Closed Company (Struck Off)
active: false and status Brisanje. The company name is the name at the time of deletion. No legal representatives, shareholders, or activities are returned for struck-off companies.Company Under Insolvency (Bankruptcy)
Company Under Insolvency (Bankruptcy)
Foreign Branch
Foreign Branch
Available Documents (company example)
Available Documents (company example)
Documents are returned when
"dataPoints": ["availableDocuments"] is requested.