Trade register
Germany
The trade register is a directory of the businesses registered in accordance with Section 14 of the Trade Regulations (GewO) maintained by the local authorities in Germany . For the registration, re-registration and deregistration of a business, a branch or a branch there is an obligation to notify according to § 14 Abs. 1 GewO. Within the municipality, the trade or regulatory office is usually responsible for keeping the register.
The trade register is intended to provide information on the number and type of businesses in its area of responsibility ( see BT-Drs. 1/4170 p. 8). Information about the business owner (e.g. name, date of birth, address) and the business (e.g. management, addresses, registered activity) is recorded.
Data from the business reports of the persons obliged to notify are transmitted to other authorities in a part defined in Section 14 (5) GewO ( District Office , IHK , Chamber of Crafts , State Environmental Office, State Trade Supervisory Office , Weights and Measures Office , Federal Employment Agency , Central Association of Statutory Accident Insurance (DGUV) , registry court , Tax Office , State Statistical Office , Customs Administration ).
The trade register is not a public register and as such does not enjoy public faith like the commercial register, for example . Trade register information can be requested, but the issuing is at the discretion of the competent authority. The commercial register is not with the Federal Justice Office conducted Gewerbezentralregister to be confused, are recorded in the trade law violations for all of Germany.
A sub-working group of the Deutschland-Online initiative is concerned with the development of a nationwide standardized electronic procedure that enables the automated transmission of data from the municipal trade registers via a central distribution platform.
Liechtenstein
Publicity of the register
The trade register in the Principality of Liechtenstein is a public register insofar as everyone can obtain information from it by simply making an informal request. However, the Office for Economics only provides everyone with information about the data entered in the trade register, provided that there are no data protection provisions to the contrary (Art. 28 GewG).
An extract from the register is issued against payment of a fee (Art. 33 GewV).
organization
The Office for Economics is responsible for maintaining the trade register in the Principality of Liechtenstein. (Art. 24 GewG).
The Office for Economics keeps the trade register as an automated register. The commercial data of the holders of business licenses, the managing directors and, if applicable, the operations manager will be entered in this. These data include in particular (Art. 27 GewG):
- the personal details or the company, the registered office and the legal form of the license holder as well as the personal details of the manager and operations manager;
- the delivery address;
- the exact name of the trade;
- the location of the permanent establishment;
- the date of issue and expiry of the business license;
- Administrative measures and penalties under administrative criminal law.
See also
- Commercial register in Liechtenstein
- Central register of persons in Liechtenstein
Austria
Trade registers were introduced in Austria with the trade regulation 1859 (GewO). The trade regulations of 1859 stipulated that each trade authority had to keep a trade register (decentralized trade register). In 1992 a "Central Trade Register" was created at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, in which the data from the decentralized trade registers were recorded. Since 2002, it has also been possible to access this data via the Internet for a fee.
The Austrian Central Trade Register serves to inform the general public as well as to perform the tasks of various authorities and institutions in Austria (e.g. tax administration, social insurance, various chambers, financial market supervision, etc.).
In Austria, the first uniform trade register, the Trade Information System Austria (GISA), went into operation on March 30, 2015. GISA is to replace the previously 14 decentralized trade registers.