# France

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

## Overview

Topograph reads INPI (RNE), INSEE (SIRENE), RNA (Waldec), RNA (Import), RNA (Alsace-Moselle), BODACC, Infogreffe (RCS) and JOAFE (Journal Officiel des Associations) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners, subsidiaries and establishments of France 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 | Comes back in Verify. |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | Yes |  |
| Subsidiaries | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Establishments | Yes |  |

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

### Documents, as the register names them

- Extrait RNE
- K-Bis
- Statuts
- Comptes sociaux
- Extrait du registre des bénéficiaires effectifs

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s in prefill mode and 3 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.

- **[INPI (RNE)](https://data.inpi.fr)**: Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle – Registre National des Entreprises
- **[INSEE (SIRENE)](https://sirene.fr)**: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques – Système SIRENE
- **[RNA (Waldec)](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/repertoire-national-des-associations/)**: Répertoire National des Associations – extract Waldec
- **[RNA (Import)](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/repertoire-national-des-associations/)**: Répertoire National des Associations – import extract
- **[RNA (Alsace-Moselle)](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/repertoire-national-des-associations/)**: Répertoire National des Associations – Alsace-Moselle registry
- **[BODACC](https://www.bodacc.fr)**: Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales
- **[Infogreffe (RCS)](https://www.infogreffe.fr)**: Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés – official records of the commercial-court registries (greffes des tribunaux de commerce), delivered through Infogreffe
- **[JOAFE (Journal Officiel des Associations)](https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr)**: Journal Officiel des Associations et Fondations d'Entreprise – official gazette publishing French association announcements and annual accounts, operated by the DILA
- **[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 SIREN or RNA as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `FR`. Their formats, validation rules and example values are in the full reference.

## The full France 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 | 6 |
| Search patterns | 6 |
| Quirks | 11 |
| Legal forms | 488 |
| Officer roles | 85 |
| Company statuses | 15 |
| Documents | 8 |
| Example responses | 9 |

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

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

## France business register guide

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

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