# Czech Republic

Company data from the Czech Republic business register, through the Topograph API.

## Overview

Topograph reads ARES (Czech Administrative Register of Economic Subjects), Obchodní rejstřík (Commercial Register), RŽP (Trade Licensing Register) and ESM (Register of Beneficial Owners) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners and establishments of Czech Republic companies through one API.

## 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 |  |
| Other key persons | Yes |  |
| Shareholders | Partly |  |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | By hand | Comes back in Verify. |
| Establishments | Yes |  |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | Yes |
| Financials | Yes |
| UBO extract | By hand |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Výpis z registru živnostenského podnikání
- Společenská smlouva / Stanovy
- Účetní závěrka
- Úplný výpis z evidence skutečných majitelů

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 6 s in verification mode. These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

## Sources

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

- **[ARES (Czech Administrative Register of Economic Subjects)](https://ares.gov.cz)**: Administrativní registr ekonomických subjektů – Czech government register of all economic entities
- **[Obchodní rejstřík (Commercial Register)](https://or.justice.cz)**: Veřejný rejstřík + Sbírka listin: Czech commercial court register and collection of deeds
- **[RŽP (Trade Licensing Register)](https://www.rzp.cz)**: Živnostenský rejstřík: Czech public register of trade licences for sole traders and entities not in the commercial register
- **[ESM (Register of Beneficial Owners)](https://esm.justice.cz)**: Evidence skutečných majitelů: Czech register of beneficial owners, run by the Ministry of Justice (esm.justice.cz)
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
- **[VIES (EU VAT)](https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/)** (secondary): EU VAT Information Exchange System: qualified VAT validation

## Identifiers

Request a company by its IČO (Identifikační číslo osoby) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `CZ`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Czech Republic 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 | 5 |
| Search patterns | 4 |
| Quirks | 13 |
| Legal forms | 141 |
| Officer roles | 2 |
| Company statuses | 6 |
| Documents | 4 |
| Example responses | 8 |

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

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/cz.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.

## Czech Republic business register guide

[Czech Republic business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-czech-republic): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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