Technical documentation for machine-readable access to the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities
Last updated: 19 August 2024.
If you are going to retrieve data from the database of the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, you must develop a code that can query our web services.
What queries you can make, how the format of these must be and the URL to be linked up to, are described in the WSDLs below. The WDSLs are considered as a technical contract for how queries and results should appear, and must be followed in order to minimize the chance that upgrades with us may affect your service.
Web services’ reuse of basic data will be found as encoded transmission here:
- The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the Register of Business Enterprises
- The Register of Non-Profit Organisations
- Historical basic data
If you have “Limited access to the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities”, you can use the following services:
Contains organisation number with registration date, name, business address, postal address and organisation type.
Contains telephone number, mobile phone number, email address and website of the enterprise.
In order to do inquiries through our Web Services towards the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, you must use an organisation number.
Through the “Name search” service, you can find the organisation number by searching for business names, directly from own applications.
Technical description
This service deviates slightly from the other services with regards to input. The parameters of this service are
• username
• password
• searchRequest
Username and password are similar to the other services, while searchRequest is to contain an xml-string, corresponding to <BrAixXmlRequest> in the XML form. What does not appear from the XML form is that in front of the element above, an encoding should be added that tells which character set is used: <?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’xxx’?>. In other words, there must be correspondence between what is specified as a character set and what is actually in the xml string.
Examples
< ?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’ISO-8859-1′?><BrAixXmlRequest>….</BrAixXmlRequest>
If encoding is set to ISO-8859-1, the text in the XML must have this character set< ?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’UTF-8’?><BrAixXmlRequest>….</BrAixXmlRequest>
If the encoding is set to UTF-8, the text in the XML must have this character set.
If the <?XML version=’1.0′ encoding=’xxx’?> is omitted, the XML string will be interpreted by default as UTF-8.
If there is a discrepancy between encoding and what is actually in the XML string, you can get unexpected answers. This applies primarily to the use of æ, ø and å, but can also cause problems when searching for other special characters.
Example of a recommended searchrequest
<![CDATA[<?XML version = “1.0” encoding = “ISO-8859-1” standalone = “no” ?>
<BrAixXmlRequest RequestName=”BrErfrSok”>
<BrErfrSok>
<BrSokeStreng>ørn</BrSokeStreng>
<MaxTreffReturneres>1000</MaxTreffReturneres>
<ReturnerIngenHvisMax>true</ReturnerIngenHvisMax>
<RequestingIPAddr>010.001.052.011</RequestingIPAddr>
<RequestingService>SOAP</RequestingService>
<WithSubentities>true</WithSubentitiesr>
</BrErfrSok>
</BrAixXmlRequest>]]>
Description of the various elements is under annotation on each element in the XML form.
Contains special information, status and status code with registration date of the enterprise.
Status codes with description
- R-FR Registered in the Register of Business Enterprises
- PLFR Not registered in the Register of Business Enterprises
- R-MV Registered in the Value Added Tax Register
- R-AA Registered in the NAV Aa Register
- R-SR Registered in the Foundation Register
- R-PR Registered in the Register of Political Parties
- R-FV Registered in the Register of Non-Profit Organisations
- KMOR Incorporated in a group
- FGRP Entered into an enterprise group
- ÅRSO Last submitted annual accounts
- KONK Bankruptcy
- AKKO Reported a debt settlement
- OPPL Under liquidation
- TVOP Compulsory dissolution
- TVUK Compusory dissolution in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act
- TVDL Compulsory liquidation due to the general manager
- TVRE Compulsory liquidation due to the auditor
- TVST Compulsory liquidation due to the board
- TVRR Compulsory liquidation due to the annual accounts
- TVKA Compulsory liquidation due to the capital NOK < 100,000.00
- TVOV Compulsory liquidation – taken over by the district court
- USL Under winding up
- OSKP Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to capital
- OSST Transferred to the district court due to the board
- OSRE Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to the auditor
- OSDL Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to the general manager
- OSEF Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to EEEG’s business manager
- OSEV Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business due to EEEG’s duration
- OSED Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to EEEG partners
- OSKA Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to capital NOK < 100,000.00
- OSOP Transferred to the district court from the Register of Business Enterprises due to dissolution for more than 1 year
- SKRR Transferred to the district court from the Register of Annual Accounts
- FUSJ Merger
- FISJ Demerger
Contains information obtained from affiliated registers such as industrial codes, institutional sectoral code, partnership contributions and number of employees.
A service providing access to information from the Register of Non-Profit Organisations, including registration date, category, account number, date of the articles of association, date of the last submitted annual accounts and whether the organisation participates or not in the Grassroots allotment programme.
Information from the Register of Non-Profit Organisations (XML)
If you have “Full access to the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities”, you can also use the following services
Contains organisation number with registration date, name, business address, postal address, type of organisation, activity or branch, objective as laid down in the articles of association, incorporation date, language variant, contact person, general manager, business manager, owner and information about main enterprise for Norwegian-registered foreign business (NUF).
Contain information about contact person, partners, general partner, co-owners, board, auditor, accountant and/or owner municipality.
Contains information about who is assigned with power of procuration and the signature in the enterprise.
Contains information about group level, with information about organisation number, name, relationship and ownership interest of parent company, and information about organisation number and name of subsidiary.
Contain organisation number, the sub-entity’s name, office address, postal address and industrial code of all the sub-entities related to a legal enterprise.
Contains information about the sub-entity such as the organisation number, the sub-entity’s name, address, industrial code, starting date, change of ownership date, number of employees, special information, contact information and information about legal enterprise.
A service that makes it possible to retrieve all the changes being made in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities during the last 24 hours, both initial registrations changes and closures.
Updates from the Central Coordinating Register for legal Entities (XML)
Information and case types in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities
The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the Register of Business Enterprises process daily notifications of initial registrations, changes and closures for between 2000 and 2500 enterprises. Once per month the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities receives updated information from the NAV Register Management about number of employees. This leads to changes for approximately 90.000 to 100.000 enterprises.
The individual user must define which enterprises (organisation number) and which information is to be monitored. If the enterprises and the information included in the daily update file are defined, the user can through Web Services retrieve the current information registered on the enterprise. The user can thus keep his own database updated at all times.
Role overview is a compilation of a person’s connection to business activity.
You can obtain a role overview both on person (national ID number) and enterprise (organisation number). It is more rare that a role search for an organisation number yields hits. Please note that you will not receive a client overview for the accountant and auditor by searching for the organisation number of the accountant or the auditor.
From us you can, among other things, order transcripts, certificates, annual accounts, document copies. Most of our standard products are now available through Web Services. Through this service, you can order our products electronically and you do not have to contact us or log in to our ordering solution.
You will find which products we can deliver from the ordering solution in the overview below. Here it is also stated which register that delivers the product.
| Product name | From |
|---|---|
| Certificate of registration in Norwegian | The Register of Business Enterprises |
| Certificate of registration with former business names | The Register of Business Enterprises |
| Certificate of registration in English, notarized | The Register of Business Enterprises |
| Annual accounts, complete | The Register of Company Accounts |
| Confirmation from the Register of Bankruptcy (organisation number/national ID number) | The Register of Bankruptcy |
| Register transcript including subentities | The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities |
| Register transcript in Norwegian from the Register of Non-Profit Organisations | The Register of Non-Profit Organisations |
| Register transcript in English from the Register of Non-Profit Organisations | The Register of Non-Profit Organisations |
| Role overview national ID number | The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities |
| Role overview, organisation number | The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities |
In order to connect to this service with Web services, you need to make the encoding with the following encoded URL where the WSDL file is locate.
Contains historical information about all registered enterprises in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. It is divided into three services:
- Historical overview of approved change cases and case disclosures about an enterprise.
- Historical register transcript with the entire national ID number.
- Historical register transcript with the birth date
The first service displays all registered case disclosures about a given sub-entity. We do not provide historical information about sub-entities. From the overview with case disclosures, the date will show when the changes have been registered. This date, along with the organisation number, is used as a search identifier to provide historical information presented in a register transcript.
Public agencies and actors who have a licence to conduct credit information service can gain access to the entire national ID number. Other actors can make inquiries in historical register transcript with the date of birth.
The service is built up with JAX-WS and makes use of WS-security in order to establish a secure connection between the client and the Web Service. The client must use SOAPHandler<SOAPMessageContext>, and implement methods this offers. In the handler class, a SOAPHeader must be built up with an element «UsernameToken». In that element, two elements «Username» and «Password» are added, which, respectively, contain the client’s username and password. The handler class must be declared in a SOA Handler XML file, and the service class annotated with @Handlerchain. The annotation must contain a file attribute that points to handler-chain xml.
In order to connect to the “Case disclosures” and “Historical information” services with Web Services, the connection is made to the following URL where WSDL file is located.