# Estonia

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

## Overview

Topograph reads e-Äriregister (Estonian Business Register) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners of Estonia 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 | Yes |  |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |

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

### Documents, as the register names them

- Äriregistri väljavõte
- Põhikiri
- Majandusaasta aruanne

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 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.

- **[e-Äriregister (Estonian Business Register)](https://ariregister.rik.ee)**: Estonian Business Register operated by the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (RIK)
- **[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, used for the qualified VAT validation

## Identifiers

Request a company by its Registry Code (Registrikood) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `EE`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Estonia 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 | 4 |
| Search patterns | 3 |
| Quirks | 16 |
| Legal forms | 22 |
| Officer roles | 116 |
| Company statuses | 4 |
| Documents | 3 |
| Example responses | 10 |

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

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

## Estonia business register guide

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

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