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This guide contains public integration notes for Croatia. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Croatia coverage, pricing, and sources

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Croatia uses two official government sources. For a given entity, company profile data comes exclusively from Sudreg. The court registry is the single source of truth for all structured company attributes.
  • 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, onboarding 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. Document access requires reCAPTCHA verification.
FINA RGFI does not provide a public API and requires reCAPTCHA verification for document access. Sudreg provides an authenticated API for structured data, while its web portal is used for personnel and document data.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

MBS is the only accepted identifier for company retrieval. Although OIB and company name work for search, /v2/company requests for Croatian company data require MBS (registration number). OIB and company name are search-only identifiers.

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).

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.

Onboarding mode (fast retrieval)

Use POST /v2/company with mode: "onboarding" for fast, cost-effective access to company profile data in Croatia, optimized for onboarding requests. Data is sourced from the Sudreg structured API only (no HTML parsing), 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, with AI fallback only for unknown patterns.
Unknown status patterns (not matching any of the above) are processed via AI enrichment to ensure accurate classification. The local Croatian status text is always preserved in the localName field.
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 and translated and standardized via AI enrichment. Sudreg does not provide a standardized role codelist. When available, a startDate is extracted from the effective date field in the HTML (e.g., “od 27.12.2024. godine”). Common roles observed in the registry:
Both individuals and corporate entities may appear as legal representatives, though individuals are far more common. 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 SupervisoryBoardMember. Role names are AI-enriched for English translation.

Shareholders

Shareholders are extracted from Sudreg for all company types that list them. Both individuals and corporate shareholders are supported.
Shareholder percentages are not available. Sudreg does not provide ownership percentages or capital contribution amounts. Only names, addresses, and identifiers are returned for shareholders.

Activity Code Mapping

Croatia does not provide structured activity codes (NKD/NACE) in Sudreg. Business activities are listed as free-text descriptions in Croatian (e.g., “Racunalno programiranje; Savjetovanje u vezi s racunalima”). The system processes these descriptions via AI batch enrichment to derive NACE and ISIC codes.
All activity codes for Croatia are AI-inferred. There is no deterministic mapping from Sudreg data. Every activity item has isAIInferred: true. The original Croatian activity descriptions are preserved in the activityDescription field. Multiple activities are separated by semicolons.

Data Availability

Data Availability Matrix

Legend: ✅ Available | ❌ Not Available | Async = Asynchronous processing

Documents by Company Type

Croatia provides comprehensive document access through two official sources: Sudreg for corporate filings and RGFI/FINA for financial documents.

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[]:
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 Brisan. The company name is provided by the API’s tvrtka_kod_brisanja field (company name at 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.