# Spain

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

## Overview

Topograph reads BORME (Spanish Official State Gazette – Mercantile Register), Registro Mercantil de España and Registro de Fundaciones de Competencia Estatal and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons and shareholders of Spain 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 |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Legal representatives | Yes |
| Other key persons | Yes |
| Shareholders | Yes |

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

### Documents, as the register names them

- Nota informativa mercantil
- Extracto del Registro de Fundaciones
- Depósito de cuentas

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 8 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.

- **[BORME (Spanish Official State Gazette – Mercantile Register)](https://www.boe.es)**: Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil – official Spanish gazette publishing mercantile register acts
- **[Registro Mercantil de España](https://registradores.org)**: Spanish Mercantile Register – official company register managed by the Colegio de Registradores
- **[Registro de Fundaciones de Competencia Estatal](https://fundosbuscador.mjusticia.gob.es)**: Spanish national register of foundations, maintained by the Ministerio de Justicia: public profile, governing-board (patronato) roster, registered seat, and purposes for state-level foundations
- **[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): VAT Information Exchange System – EU VAT number validation service

## Identifiers

Request a company by its NIF/CIF (Número de Identificación Fiscal) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `ES`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Spain 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 | 6 |
| Quirks | 13 |
| Legal forms | 36 |
| Officer roles | 94 |
| Company statuses | 6 |
| Documents | 3 |
| Example responses | 8 |

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

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

## Spain business register guide

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

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