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This guide contains public integration notes for Norway. 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.Norway coverage, pricing, and sources
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Data Sources
Norway uses a single official registry for all company data.- Bronnysundregistrene (BR-Reg / The Bronnoysund Register Centre) — Operated by the Norwegian government, BR-Reg maintains the Enhetsregisteret (Entity Register) and Foretaksregisteret (Business Register). It is the sole data source for all Norwegian entities. Accessed via a REST API (
data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api), it provides comprehensive company data including legal form, status, management roles, activity codes (NACE), employees, addresses, contact information, and sub-entities (establishments). The API covers all entity types: commercial companies, sole proprietorships, non-profits, and public institutions.
The BR-Reg REST API returns structured JSON data with a clean, flat structure. Company data, roles, and sub-entities are accessed through separate API endpoints. Roles data includes role groups (
rollegrupper) containing individual role entries with type codes and person/entity details.Company Identifiers
Query Identifiers
Identifiers in API Response
Once you retrieve company data, theidentifiers object contains all available identifiers for that entity:
VAT Number Auto-Generation: The VAT number is automatically generated by appending
MVA to the organization number when the company has registrertIMvaregisteret = true. It is not a separate identifier from the registry.Search Capabilities
Name search queries the BR-Reg REST API at
/enheter?navn=.... Identifier searches (organization number) perform exact lookups via /enheter?organisasjonsnummer=... and are significantly faster.Fast search data
Norway company data is periodically synchronized from the Enhetsregisteret open dataset into a fast search index.Search
Search queries hit the fast search index first for instant results, with automatic fallback to the live BR-Reg API if the fast search index misses.Companies in fast search data
The fast search index contains all active Norwegian entities from the Enhetsregisteret. Companies in the following states are excluded from the fast search dataset:
Active companies without any of these flags are included regardless of legal form (AS, ENK, ANS, etc.).
Onboarding Mode
In onboarding mode, requests for thecompany datapoint use the fast search dataset rather than a live BR-Reg lookup. This provides faster responses with lighter enrichment. Data freshness depends on the source refresh schedule.
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Company Status
Company status is determined deterministically from boolean flags in the BR-Reg API response. No AI inference is involved in status determination.Status determination uses a priority chain: (1)
konkurs (bankruptcy), (2) underAvvikling (voluntary liquidation), (3) underTvangsavviklingEllerTvangsopplosning (forced liquidation), (4) presence of nedleggelsesdato or slettedato (cessation/deletion date). If none apply, the company is Active.Legal Forms
Norway uses theorganisasjonsform.kode from the BR-Reg API. The system translates the code to English using a deterministic pre-computed lookup table covering all known organisasjonsform codes. For known codes, standardized classification is applied directly; for unrecognized codes, AI-based classification is used as fallback. ISO 20275 (ELF) codes will be populated in a future update.
Legal forms are classified from official registry data. For known codes, standardized classification is applied directly; for unrecognized codes, AI-based classification is used as fallback.
Companies
Sole Proprietorships
Partnerships
Cooperatives
Non-profit Organizations
Government-Owned Entities
Branch / Representative Office
Other
Legal Representatives
Legal representatives are extracted deterministically from the BR-Reg roles API endpoint (/enheter/{id}/roller). The system uses a pre-computed mapping of 20 role type codes with explicit isLegalRepresentative flags. A two-pass algorithm handles board member classification.
Legal Representative Roles (9 codes)
Legal Representative Roles (9 codes)
Other Key Person Roles (8 codes)
Other Key Person Roles (8 codes)
Non-Relevant Roles (3 codes, excluded from output)
Non-Relevant Roles (3 codes, excluded from output)
Special Board Member Logic
The system implements a two-pass algorithm for board member classification:Role classification is fully deterministic using the pre-computed
ROLE_TYPES mapping. No AI inference is involved in determining whether a person is a legal representative or other key person. Only the English translation enrichment step uses AI (for standardized role mapping to Topograph enum).Shareholders
Shareholder data is not available from the BR-Reg API. The Norwegian business registry does not expose ownership or shareholder information through its public API.Unlike Denmark (which provides shareholder data via CVR) or the Netherlands (which extracts shareholder data from trade register extracts via AI parsing), Norway’s public registry API does not include any ownership data.
Other Key Persons
Other key persons include board members, auditors, accountants, business managers, and other non-executive roles. Both individual and corporate entities can hold these roles (e.g., an auditing firm asREVI).
Ultimate Beneficial Owners
UBO data is not available from the BR-Reg API. The Norwegian business registry does not expose beneficial ownership information through its public API endpoints.Activity Codes
Norway uses the SN2007 (Standard for naeringsgruppering) classification, which is the Norwegian implementation of NACE Rev. 2. Activity codes come directly from the BR-Reg API structured fields (naeringskode1, naeringskode2, naeringskode3).
AI Enrichment: NACE codes are never AI-inferred for Norway — they come directly from the registry as structured data. ISIC codes are derived from NACE via the
enrichActivities parser, which may use AI when formal mapping tables do not cover the specific code. Every activity item includes an isAIInferred flag.Data Availability
Data Availability Matrix
Legend: ✅ Available | ❌ Not Available | ⚠️ Conditionally Available | Async = Asynchronous processing
Documents
All Companies
Trade Register Extract: The Enhetsutskrift is always available for any registered entity. It is retrieved from the official register and generated as a PDF with an estimated delivery time of ~30 seconds.
Annual Reports: Financial statements are listed by querying the
virksomhet.brreg.no endpoint for available financial years. Each year with an annual report generates a separate document entry with period information (start and end dates of the fiscal year). The document name follows the pattern Arsregnskap {year} (e.g., “Arsregnskap 2024”). Annual reports are fetched and deduplicated permanently since they do not change once published.Example API Responses
All examples use placeholder data. Query:POST /v2/company with { "id": "<id>", "countryCode": "NO", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"] }
Active AS (Source: BR-Reg)
Active AS (Source: BR-Reg)
ENK Sole Proprietorship (Source: BR-Reg)
ENK Sole Proprietorship (Source: BR-Reg)
ENK) have the owner (Innehaver) as the only legal representative. No shareholders or board members are present.Closed Company -- Bankruptcy (Source: BR-Reg)
Closed Company -- Bankruptcy (Source: BR-Reg)
konkurs = true, status is CLOSED with closure reason BANKRUPTCY. A bankruptcy trustee (Bostyrer, code BOBE) may appear as an other key person.Non-Profit -- Association (Source: BR-Reg)
Non-Profit -- Association (Source: BR-Reg)
FLI) are retrieved from the same BR-Reg API as commercial companies. They may have board members, chairman, and auditors. No shareholders or UBOs.Onboarding Profile (Source: Fast search data)
Onboarding Profile (Source: Fast search data)
standardized or iso20275Code on legal form, no isAIInferred on activities, no shareholders or UBOs.Available Documents (company example)
Available Documents (company example)
Documents are returned when
"dataPoints": ["availableDocuments"] is requested.