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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. The taxId 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

Use the MBS for company retrieval. The company profile also resolves an OIB or HR VAT number to the MBS, but documents and some datapoints require the MBS. Search by OIB or company name first, then pass the returned MBS to /v2/company.

Identifiers in API Response

Once you retrieve company data, the identifiers object contains all available identifiers for that entity:
VAT and OIB: In Croatia, the OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj) serves as both the national tax ID and the EU VAT number. The VAT identifier in the response is the same 11-digit OIB value. For EU VIES validation, prefix with HR (e.g., HR37034650117).
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

Search Performance: Use identifier-based searches (MBS, OIB) for best performance and exact matching. Name searches use an “approximately starts with” operator and may return multiple results.

Active companies only

The register itself excludes companies that are no longer active when you search with activeOnly=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)

Use POST /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.
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 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, a startDate 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). Request ultimateBeneficialOwners 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)

Foreign Branch Documents

For foreign branches registered in Croatia, additional documents are available via otherDocuments[]. 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"] }
Note: Struck-off companies have 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.
Note: Foreign branches registered in Croatia may have additional documents including certified translations of the parent company’s registry extracts and financial statements.
Documents are returned when "dataPoints": ["availableDocuments"] is requested.