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The European Business Register


The European Business Register (EBR) is a European network for the exchange of information on business enterprises. The EBR makes official information about European companies available online to all European countries, across barriers that may arise due to differences in language, technology and legislation. As trade across borders is constantly on the rise, correct and easily available information about foreign business enterprises has taken on growing importance.

With the EBR you can gain electronic access via the Internet to information about business enterprises in a number of European countries. The aim in the long run is to provide the same information from all the national registers in the EU's inner market.

Access to official and reliable business enterprise information is a prerequisite for efficient and safe business operations. Most countries have business enterprise registers that provide such information to their domestic business enterprises, but obtaining reliable information about foreign business enterprises has not always been easy. The various business-enterprise registers exchange information among themselves using the EBR system. In Norway the EBR is accessible on the Brønnøysund Register Centre web site.

Before you can start using the EBR service you must register as a user. You will then receive a user name and password for this service. Via EBR you can identify business enterprises by searching names in all the participating country registers. When you have identified a business enterprise you can examine it in more detail by accessing the standardized package of information called a business enterprise profile.