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This guide contains public integration notes for Luxembourg. 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.

Luxembourg coverage, pricing, and sources

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Luxembourg uses a single official register, the RCS, as its data source. What you get depends on the mode:
  • Prefill mode (company only): read live from the register’s public data. Returns the RCS number, company name, legal form, registration date, NACE code and registered seat. Status is derived from enforcement measures published by the register.
  • Verification mode (company, legalRepresentatives, otherKeyPersons, shareholders): extracted with AI parsing from the certified trade register extract (“Extrait du RCS”). All four datapoints come from the same extract and are billed as one block (see pricing).

All company types

  • RCS (Registre de Commerce et des Societes) — Operated by Luxembourg Business Registers (LBR), an economic interest grouping comprising the State, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Skilled Trades, under the authority of the Ministry of Justice since 2003. The RCS is the central commercial register for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, containing registration data for virtually all legal entities: commercial companies, partnerships, sole traders, civil companies, non-profit associations (ASBLs), foundations, investment funds, and branches of foreign entities. In verification mode, company name, legal form, status, registration date, registered address, share capital, activities, legal representatives, and shareholders are AI-parsed from the certified extract.
  • VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) — The EU-wide VAT validation service is used during VAT number searches to resolve a Luxembourg VAT number to a company name, which is then used to search the RCS. In verification mode, VIES also validates the VAT number found on the extract, and the result is returned as taxId with its verification status.
Document-based data extraction: Officers and shareholders are only published on the certified extract (“Extrait du RCS”), so verification mode extracts them from that document using AI parsing. Data quality depends on the document content and parsing accuracy. Prefill mode does not use the extract and returns only the base fields the register publishes.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

RCS Number Format: The Luxembourg RCS number consists of an uppercase section letter followed by digits, with no space (e.g., B246607). The letter is the register section: B for commercial companies is the most common. In the records we have seen the number has 1 to 6 digits and no leading zeros. The regex validation pattern is ^[A-Z]\d+$. Send the number without the space some documents print (B 246607).

RCS Number Prefixes

Identifiers in API Response

Once you retrieve company data, the identifiers object contains all available identifiers for that entity: GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier. company.identifiers.lei is optional. It is returned when the RCS number (rcs) 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: Identifier-based searches (RCS number, VAT) provide exact matching and faster results. Name searches query the RCS directly and may return multiple results across the register.
VAT Search Flow: VAT searches follow a two-step process: (1) validate the number via VIES to retrieve the official company name, then (2) search the RCS by that company name. The matched company is flagged as an id match and promoted to the top of results. Both formats are accepted: with country prefix (LU32326416) and without (32326416).
Search reliability: All search operations include built-in retry handling for reliability against the RCS API.

Active companies only

Search can return companies that are no longer active. activeOnly=true removes those whose status is known at search time; the others are kept. Companies the register flags as struck off are removed. Other results carry no status, including some from very broad name searches, and are returned unfiltered.

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Company status is determined from the trade register extract document using a two-step process: (1) a keyword-based heuristic checks for closure indicators in the document text, then (2) the status is AI-enriched for standardization.
If no closure indicators are found in the document text, the company is considered Active by default. The AI enrichment step maps the detected status to a standardized CompanyStatus enum value (ACTIVE, CLOSED, UNDER_INSOLVENCY_PROCEEDING, or UNKNOWN).
Luxembourg legal forms are extracted from the RCS trade register extract via AI parsing. The legalFormCode field from search results provides an initial abbreviation, while the full legal form name is parsed from the certified extract document and AI-enriched to add English translations, standardized types, and ISO 20275 codes.
Because legal form standardization and ISO 20275 assignment are AI-enriched, exact mappings may evolve. The local Luxembourg legal form name from the RCS document is always preserved verbatim.

Key Business Forms

Partnerships

Sole Proprietorships

Cooperatives & European Forms

Non-Profits & Foundations

Investment Vehicles

Insurance & Mutual Associations

Foreign Entities

Legal representatives and other key persons are read from the certified RCS extract. Known French and German office labels use published translations and standardized values. The extract’s representation powers and the company’s legal form determine who can bind the company. Managers of a SARL represent the company subject to its signing rule. An SA board title alone does not establish a personal signature power. Supervisory members and auditors appear under otherKeyPersons; officers with recorded sole or joint powers appear under legalRepresentatives.
Both individuals and corporate entities can hold legal representative and other key person roles in Luxembourg companies. The split follows the published representation powers, not the title alone. Extraction and ISO 5009 matching may use AI; known role translations and standardized values come from the published role list.

Shareholders

Shareholders are extracted from the RCS trade register extract via AI parsing. The AI looks for Luxembourg-specific shareholder terminology in the document text.

Extraction Logic

The AI parser identifies shareholders from specific sections of the trade register extract:

Ownership Fields

Shareholder extraction quality depends on the structure and completeness of the trade register extract document. Both individual and corporate shareholders are supported. Percentage calculation is derived from the ratio of shares held to total shares when available. Not all legal forms publish shareholder information in the RCS extract — SAs (public limited companies) typically do not list individual shareholders in their extracts.

Activity Code Mapping

Luxembourg uses the NACE Rev. 2 classification. The register publishes one NACE code per company. Returned NACE and ISIC codes are standardized with AI: in verification mode from the activity found on the extract, and in prefill mode from the register’s NACE label. The system maps activity codes across two levels:
When company data is AI-parsed from the trade register extract, activity descriptions may also be extracted from “Objet social” or “Activite principale” sections and used for the activity classification.

Data Availability

Data Availability Matrix

Legend: ✅ Available | ❌ Not Available | N/A Not Applicable | Async = Asynchronous processing (document delivery typically ~1 hour)

Documents by Company Type

Document Delivery Time: Luxembourg certified trade register extracts are delivered asynchronously. Typical delivery time is approximately 1 hour, and can occasionally take longer.
The certified Extrait du RCS serves as both the official company document and the source from which verification-mode data (company, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders) is AI-parsed. RESA publications and RCS filings (including annual accounts) are listed alongside it in availableDocuments.

Example API Responses

All examples use placeholder data. Query: POST /v2/company with { "id": "<id>", "countryCode": "LU", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives", "availableDocuments"] }
Closed companies have active: false and status “Radiee” (struck off). Document data may be more limited compared to active companies, and legal representatives and shareholders may not always be present in the extract.
VAT searches return results with a matchReason object indicating the match type (id) and the identifier used. The matched company is promoted to the top of results.