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Europe
Portugal
Company data from the Portugal business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads IRN (Portuguese Institute of Registries and Notary), Publicações MJ (IRN Commercial Register Publications) and RCBE (Registo Central do Beneficiário Efetivo) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners of Portugal companies through one API.
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).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
Comes back in Verify.
- Other key personsYes
Comes back in Verify.
- ShareholdersPartly
Comes back in Verify.
- Ultimate beneficial ownersBy hand
Comes back in Verify.
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationYes
- FinancialsYes
- UBO extractBy hand
- Compilação de Publicações do Registo Comercial
- Certidão Permanente de Registo Comercial
- Certidão do Último Pacto Social/Estatutos Atualizados
- Prestação de Contas
- Certidão do RCBE
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 40 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado – Portuguese institute managing the commercial register (Registo Comercial)
publicacoes.mj.pt: official IRN portal of commercial register publications (incorporations, capital changes, dissolutions). Used as the bulk-data source for the prefill profile.
Portuguese Central Beneficial Ownership Register, accessed through a Portal das Finanças login restricted to authorized professionals. Topograph obtains the certificate through a partner.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
- VIES (EU VAT)Secondary
VAT Information Exchange System – EU VAT number validation service used for legal proof of VAT validity (PT VAT = NIF).
Request a company by its NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) as the id, with countryCode set to PT. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full 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.
- Identifiers and formats4
- Search patterns3
- Quirks11
- Legal forms30
- Officer roles48
- Company statuses11
- Documents5
- Example responses7