Disclaimer: The text below is a translation of the original Norwegian regulations, and in any cases where doubt may arise, the Norwegian text of the regulations is valid and binding.
Laid down by the Ministry of Business and Industry 16 December 2003 pursuant to the Norwegian Act dated 21 June 1985 no. 78 relating to Registration of Business Enterprises, section 4-1 third paragraph and section 8-1 first paragraph, the Norwegian Act dated 7 June 1935 no. 2 relating to Judicial Registration, section 34 fourth and fifth paragraphs, the Norwegian Act dated 3 June 1994 no. 15 relating to the Central Coordinating Register for Local Entities, section 22 fourth paragraph, the Norwegian Act dated 17 July 1998 no. 56 relating to Annual Accounts etc. (the Norwegian Accounting Act), section 8-1 second paragraph, the Norwegian Act dated 8 June 1984 no. 58 relating to Debt Negotiations and Bankruptcy (the Norwegian Bankruptcy Act), section 144 and the Norwegian Act dated 6 June 1997 no. 35 relating to the Register of the Reporting Obligations of Enterprises, section 4.
I Chapter 1. General provisions
Section 1. Scope
These regulations establish the provisions for fees for services performed by the Brønnøysund Register Centre pursuant to the following Norwegian Acts:
- The Act dated 21 June 1985 no. 78 (the Norwegian Business Registration Act), section 4-1 third paragraph and section 8-1 first paragraph
- The Act dated 7 June 1935 no. 2 (the Norwegian Judicial Registration Act), section 34 fourth and fifth paragraphs
- The Act dated 3 June 1994 no. 15 (the Norwegian Central Coordinating Register Act), section 22 fourth paragraph
- The Act dated 17 July 1998 no. 56 (the Norwegian Accounting Act), section 8-1, second paragraph
- The Act dated 8 June 1984 no. 58 (the Norwegian Bankruptcy Act), section 144
- The Act dated 6 June 1997 no. 35 ( the Norwegian Reporting Obligations Act), section 4
Section 2. Provision of information
Information from the Brønnøysund Register Centre may be provided orally, in writing or by means of electronic media.
Information on telephone numbers, telefax numbers and other electronic addresses can only be provided in writing or by means of electronic media.
The provisions governing access to information in the Freedom of Information Act apply to submitted information that has not been entered into the electronic registers. A fee may nevertheless be charged for supplying copies of submitted documents and their appendices to cover the expenses the keeper of the register incurs from supplying such copies.
Section 3. Collecting fees
The person ordering the service in question is responsible for paying the fee.
Fees are normally collected after delivery. The fees constitute the grounds for the enforcement of a claim, cf. the Act dated 26 June 1992 no. 86.
If register information is provided by means of electronic media with secure payment solutions, payment may be collected when the information is provided.
The keeper of the register may stipulate as a condition for payment of the fee after delivery that a guarantee is provided or that a specially established method for payment is used. The keeper of the register may demand that the fee be paid in advance by customers who have a record of previous default on their fee payment obligations and in other special cases.
The register may establish special rules for periodic payment for frequent users of register information.
Section 4. Waiving the demand for a fee
The keeper of the register may waive a demand for a fee if this is deemed reasonable in a specific case.
Chapter 2. Fees for registration, judicial registration etc.
Section 5. Fees for registration, judicial registration and submission to the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property
For judicial registration, registration or notation in the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property, a fee must be paid pursuant to the second paragraph unless otherwise stipulated by the fourth paragraph.
For the following services a fee of NOK 1450 must be paid:
- Judicial registration or registration of a mortgage bond or secured indemnity bond
- Registration in the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property of an agreement related to a vendor's lien on a motor vehicle (including agreements that pursuant to section 3-22 in the Act dated 8 February 1980 no. 2 relating to mortgages are equivalent to a vendor's lien agreement)
- Registration of a factoring agreement
- Registration of a special notification of the amount, or the highest amount, to be secured by the mortgage in a factoring agreement, cf. the Act dated 8 February 1980 no. 2 related to mortgages section 4-10, that was entered into prior to 1 January 1992
- Other documents to be judicially registered, noted or registered in the Register.
No fee is to be paid for registration in the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property of a vendor's lien in operating equipment that has been judicially registered in the land register prior to the entry into force of the Act dated 1 June 2001 no. 28 relating to changes in the Act dated 8 February 1980 no. 2 relating to mortgages and some other acts.
No fee shall be paid for judicial registration, registration or notation of:
- Evidence that an encumbrance has lapsed, or that the person who is entitled to it consents to it being cancelled
- A notification made by the court of probate and bankruptcy, debt rehabilitation committee or bankruptcy administrator in pursuance of the Bankruptcy Act or Mortgage Act
- A decision that any person has been placed under guardianship or that a guardianship has been rescinded
- Execution proceedings, attachment proceedings and interim court orders
- Transactions in pursuance of the Debt Settlement Act
Section 6. Fees for registration/submission to the Register of Business Enterprises
On registration in the Register of Business Enterprises fees must be paid according to the following rates:
- For registration of a company where all or some of the participants have limited liability, NOK 6000
- For registration of other companies, NOK 2500
- For registration of other notifications to be published, NOK 2500
However, no fee shall be paid for any registration of a notification that a company is being dissolved and struck off the register.
Chapter 3. Fees/prices for providing information
Section 7. Information from the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property
Anyone may order a transcript of what is registered on any unambiguously designated person or business enterprise, or specially designated motor vehicle. The transcript may be restricted to certain types of encumbrance. A transcript of individual encumbrances may be ordered using the registration book number series as identification.
In transcripts, persons are identified by the date of birth and national identity number, and business enterprises by the business enterprise registration number, when the person placing the order identifies this.
A fee of NOK 150 shall be paid for the following information printed on paper or in electronic format from the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property:
- Special excerpt of registered security interests
- Any other certified registered transcript relating to the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property. One fee shall be paid for each registration entity the transcript provides.
- List of documents entered in the registration book or certain groups of such documents
- A certified copy of a judicially registered document or registered document made out by a registration authority or judicial registration authority
If the list as mentioned in third paragraph (c) applies to judicial registrations, registrations or notations comprising documents entered into the registration book for more than one calendar month, a fee of NOK 150 shall be paid for each commenced calendar month.
A copy of a debt amnesty agreement may only be requisitioned by the court of execution and enforcement, the execution officer, the debtor and his spouse, creditors, other parties and the public authorities.
Transcripts from the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property with information on marriage settlements only provide information on marriage settlements judicially registered after the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property commenced operations on 1 January 1981. A transcript of a marriage settlement judicially registered prior to this date must be specially requested.
Section 8. Information from the Central Coordinating Register for Local Entities
The entity for which information is ordered must be clearly and unambiguously identified. However, this does not apply to ordering an overview of entities registered with one or more specified details.
For information printed on paper or in electronic format from the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities a fee must be paid according to the following rates:
- For an ordinary transcript, NOK 100. This does not apply to transcripts provided in relation to a notification.
- For special transcripts, NOK 150
- For compiling information about a person's connections to business enterprises (role overview), NOK 150
An ordinary transcript is a transcript provided to order with only the entity's business registration number determining the content of the transcript. With the limitations that follow from the Central Coordinating Register Act, s ection 22, such a transcript must include all the information registered on that entity at the time the order is dispatched.
A special transcript is a transcript of a single entity provided without any connection to a notification and which does not come under the third paragraph of this provision.
A compilation such as mentioned in second paragraph (c) is only available to the person for whom the information is ordered and the public authorities. The person for whom a role overview is ordered must be identified by name, address and complete date of birth and national identity number (11 digits), and business registration number for entities registered in the Central Coordinating Register for Local Entities.
No fee shall be paid for a transcript to which the person who is placing the order has a right pursuant to the Act dated 14 April 2000 no. 31 (the Data Protection Act), section 18.
Affiliated registers, the courts and the police and prosecuting authorities shall receive information from the Central Coordinating Register for Local Entities without the payment of any fee. This also applies to other public agencies which undertake the following on behalf of the state or central authorities:
- Setting and assessment of taxes and fees
- Collection of taxes
- Inspection of financing operations and financial institutions
The keeper of the register may stipulate detailed requirements for how the information is to be provided and what information should be made available pursuant to the seventh paragraph of this provision.
Section 9. Information from the Register of Business Enterprises
When any person so requests it, he or she has the right to familiarize himself or herself with the content of the submitted documents by obtaining transcripts pursuant to the provisions in these regulations. This nevertheless does not apply to personal dates of birth and national identity numbers.
A fee must be paid for information in written or electronic format according to the following rates:
- For an ordinary business registration certificate requested from the Register of Business Enterprises with no connection to a notification, NOK 150.
- For other types of specially ordered register transcripts relating to a business enterprise, NOK 350.
However, no fee shall be paid for information on whether an identified business enterprise has been registered in the Register of Business Enterprises. No fee shall be paid for information on whether a previously registered business enterprise has been struck off.
- NOK 350 for each order and each copy of an approved notification form, partnership agreement, articles of association and other attachments to notifications to the Register of Business Enterprises.
- For information on what was previously registered about a business enterprise in the trade registers, NOK 350
Section 10. Information from the Register of Company Accounts
For information in written or electronic format a fee must be paid according to the following rates:
- For a copy of annual accounts with the auditor's statement by regular mail, NOK 350.
- For a copy of annual accounts downloaded from the Internet, NOK 150.
- For a copy of annual accounts from the Brønnøysund fax, NOK 150.
Section 11. Information from the Register of Bankruptcies
A fee of NOK 150 shall be paid for each transcript to others than the public authorities, the bankruptcy administrator and the person the information pertains to.
Section 12. Information from the Register of Reporting Obligations of Enterprises
When ordering information on the reporting obligations a particular business operator is under, the person placing the order must use identification that includes the business registration number. If the information concerns a group of business operators, the group must be specified using given criteria such as type of organization, business code and the number of employees.
Chapter 4. Special information services
Section 13. General
The Brønnøysund Register Centre can by appointment provide special information services beyond what is evident in Chapter 3, for example by providing copies of sections of registers, overviews of the number of specified entities, direct connections for heavy users etc.
The keeper of the register shall in conjunction with the Ministry set the prices for the special information services available at any time. The prices shall be based on the principle of coverage of the costs incurred from facilitating and providing information.
The keeper of the register may in special circumstances allow free access to register information for research purposes etc.
Section 14. Special information services from the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property
Date of birth and national identity numbers, business enterprise names, organization numbers, motor vehicle registration numbers or registration book numbers shall be used for searches. Lawyers, banks, insurance companies, financing enterprises, collection companies, credit information enterprises and enforcement authorities may also be allowed to use names of persons as search criteria.
Credit information enterprises operating with a licence for their activities may subscribe to periodic transcripts in electronic format comprising the following document types:
- Enforcement proceedings
- Voluntary granting of a security interest pursuant to the Norwegian Mortgage Act, section 3-4, section 3-8, section 3-9, section 3-10, section 3-11, section 3-14, section 3-17 and section 3-22
- Factoring agreements
- Notifications of opening bankruptcy proceedings or composition negotiations
- Opening of debt restructure proceedings and voluntary and forced debt rehabilitation
Section 15. Special information services from the Central Coordinating Register for Local Entities
A fee of NOK 1 must be paid for each entity included in lists of register enterprises. The list may only include information that is publicly accessible pursuant to the Central Coordinating Register Act, s ection 22 second paragraph.
For the public authorities, lists as mentioned in the first paragraph may be expanded to include information registered pursuant to the Central Coordinating Register Act, s ection 6 first paragraph. A fee of NOK 7.50 must be paid for each entity included in the list.
Section 16. Special information services from the Register of Business Enterprises
For a printed list of entity register status in the Register of Business Enterprises a fee of NOK 1 must be paid for each enterprise included in the list.
For a printed list of new notifications/changes and enterprises struck off the register in the Register of Business Enterprises during a calendar month, a fee of NOK 1 must be paid for each notification included in the list.
II
The regulations enter into force on 1 January 2004.
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