# Albania

Company data from the Albania business register, through the Topograph API.

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. We are still expanding and refining its coverage. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads Albanian Commercial Register (QKB) and Albanian Register of Beneficial Owners (QKB) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners and establishments of Albania companies through one API.

Albania keeps its companies and its beneficial owners at one institution, QKB (Qendra Kombëtare e Biznesit, the National Business Center). Every entity is identified by its NIPT, the same number the tax administration uses. Search by NIPT or by name, then request the datapoints with the NIPT.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

| Datapoint | Returned | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |  |
| Legal representatives | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Other key persons | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Shareholders | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Establishments | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | Yes |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Ekstrakt i thjeshtë i Regjistrit Tregtar
- Ekstrakt i thjeshtë i Regjistrit të Pronarit Përfitues

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[Albanian Commercial Register (QKB)](https://qkb.gov.al/kerko-per-subjekt/)**: The commercial register kept by QKB, the National Business Center, under Law 9723/2007 on business registration. It covers companies, partnerships, sole traders, agricultural cooperation companies and the branches and representative offices of foreign companies. Each record holds the NIPT, name, trade name, legal form, registration and founding dates, seat, capital, object of activity, administrators and board, authorised accounting experts, partners or shareholders, other places of business and status.
- **[Albanian Register of Beneficial Owners (QKB)](https://qkb.gov.al/kerko-subjekt-ne-rpp/)**: The register of beneficial owners kept by QKB under Law 112/2020. Every entity on the commercial register except sole traders declares its beneficial owners: name, nationality, month and year of birth, type of control, the date they became a beneficial owner, the ownership percentage, and, for indirect ownership, the legal persons it runs through.

## Identifiers

Request a company by its NIPT / NUIS as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `AL`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Albania reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 1 |
| Search patterns | 2 |
| Quirks | 6 |
| Legal forms | 13 |
| Officer roles | 11 |
| Company statuses | 5 |
| Documents | 3 |
| Example responses | 6 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fal
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fal

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/al.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/al