Frequently asked questions about how to register an association or a club
Last updated: 27 May 2026.
No attachments, but you confirm the election by declaring in the form that:
- the board has been lawfully elected by the association’s annual meeting or any other competent authority
- there is a set of minutes confirming the most recently elected board, and that it is in correspondence with the information in the form
The Brønnøysund Register Centre can do random checks and demand to have the minutes sent, both during and after the submission of the form, and at a later point in time.
The rules for the election of the board should be listed in the articles of association.
Yes, you do. If you do not list the entire board in the form, we cannot approve the notification. All persons must be listed with national identity number or d-number, and you have to check for the correct role. The board reported in the form must correspond with the most recently board which has been elected.
Deputy board members must always be reported in the form.
The Brønnøysund Register Centre only registers the roles
- chair of the board
- board member
- deputy board member
Persons with roles such as deputy chair, treasurer, secretary and financial controller etc. must be registered as board members if they are elected to be members of the board.
If you do not know the exact date of incorporation, enter the date you believe is correct. If you know the year, you can for instance use the date 31 December of this year. Avoid reporting a recent date of incorporation if the association was founded back in time.
If the association was founded a long time ago and the memorandum of association does not exist, you need to attach the minutes from the annual meeting showing that the association exists.
This form field is only to be filled in if you have a decision from the board meeting or the annual meeting, or articles of association showing the assignment of signature rights. The signature right you enter in the form must be the same as the one that has been approved.
No attachments are required. The signature right is documented by declaring in the form that:
- the signature right has been lawfully approved by the association’s annual general meeting or another competent body
- minutes showing the most recently approved signature right exists and the information is in correspondence with what is reported in the form
The Brønnøysund Register Centre can do random checks and demand to have the minutes sent at a later point in time.
The decision must clearly state that a signature right has been granted. The decision must also include information on whether the signature right is assigned to someone “alone”, “separately” or “jointly”.
The decision cannot contain information showing that the assignment only applies to the disposal of bank accounts, permission to sign forms to The Brønnøysund Register Centre, or other similar limitations.
Assignment of signature right is not the same as a right to dispose a bank account. The right to dispose a bank account must be arranged directly with the bank, and is an agreement between the association and the bank. This is information which is not registered with us.
We note that a person being assigned a signature right can commit the association in most contexts, including raising loans and purchase and selling real estate on behalf of the association.
The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities does not register internal roles such as treasurer, financial controller or similar. The signature right must therefore be reported in the form on the person’s name and national identity number.
No attachments are required. The signature right is documented by declaring in the form that:
- the signature right has been lawfully approved by the association’s annual general meeting or another competent body
- minutes showing the most recently approved signature right exists and the information is in correspondence with what is reported in the form
The Brønnøysund Register Centre can do random checks and demand to have the minutes sent at a later point in time.
You have to report the new name in the form. The association must change the statutes, so that they contain the new name.
No, internal advancement from deputy board member to board member is not going to be registered. A deputy board member must act as a board member in cases where board members cannot be present or has resigned his/her role.
Only board members elected by the annual meeting are to be registered.
A person who has resigned his/her role during the period from the annual meeting was held, and until you now report this board to us, should not be entered in the form. You have to add documentation showing that this person is no longer a board member.