Business Registers in Slovenia: AJPES (the Business Register)

Overview

Slovenia keeps its company information with AJPES, the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services (Agencija Republike Slovenije za javnopravne evidence in storitve). AJPES runs the Business Register of Slovenia (Poslovni register Slovenije, PRS) alongside the court register (sodni register), and together they hold the official record for every company, sole trader, and association in the country. Search is free and open to the public.

Slovenia is a transparent jurisdiction for KYB work. The register exposes legal representatives and, for limited liability companies, the actual shareholders with their stakes. AJPES also publishes company annual reports, which is unusual in the depth of financial disclosure it makes available. Slovenia is part of the EU VAT system, so Slovenian entities carry a VAT number built from their tax number.

One area has narrowed. Slovenia maintains a beneficial ownership register, but open public access ended in August 2025 and moved to a tiered model. It is no longer freely browsable, yet KYB and AML professionals can still reach the data: anyone with a legitimate interest, including a party about to enter a business relationship, can request it. The detail is in the Beneficial Ownership section below.

Official Registers

AJPES Business Register (PRS and court register)

The AJPES business register is the single source of company data in Slovenia. A free public search accepts the registration number, the tax number, or a company name, and returns the entity's profile. Court-registered companies also have a digitally signed extract (Izpisek iz sodnega registra) available as a PDF.

Each entity is identified by its matična številka (registration number), a ten-digit number made of a seven-digit base and a three-digit suffix, usually `000` for the main entity. The eight-digit davčna številka (tax number) is also accepted, and the VAT number is that tax number prefixed with `SI`.

The register records the legal name, legal form, status, registered address, share capital, incorporation date, and the legal representatives. For limited liability companies and partnerships, it also lists the partners and their equity interests. Note that AJPES does not publish structured activity classification codes through the register, so a company's sector is described in narrative terms rather than a NACE code.

AJPES has been modernising access. From October 2025, registration filings move to a digital-only process under the EU "once-only" principle, with paper filing being phased out. In February 2026, AJPES also retired its legacy programmatic interface in favour of a modern REST API that returns JSON and XML.

Financial Statements

AJPES operates the public annual-reports service (Javna objava letnih poročil, JOLP), where Slovenian companies file their annual reports. Slovenia's regime here is notably open compared with many states, since the balance sheet and income statement of ordinary companies are filed centrally and made available rather than kept private.

Beneficial Ownership

Slovenia's beneficial ownership register (Register dejanskih lastnikov, RDL) holds the declared ultimate beneficial owners of Slovenian entities. In August 2025, following the EU court ruling on open beneficial ownership registers, Slovenia replaced open public access with a tiered model under its anti-money-laundering act. The tiers work like this:

• Authorities (police, tax administration, the financial intelligence unit, courts) have unrestricted access.
• Obliged entities such as banks, along with journalists and civil-society organisations, access the data on the basis of their status.
• Anyone else with a legitimate interest, including a counterparty about to enter a business relationship, can file an application to AJPES with supporting documents.

So the register is no longer openly browsable, but it stays reachable for legitimate KYB and AML purposes through the application route, which AJPES processes at no charge.

Registration and Publication Requirements

Companies

The družba z omejeno odgovornostjo (d.o.o.) is Slovenia's limited liability company and the most common form. It registers in the court register, and its partners, their capital contributions, and their share percentages are part of the public record. The delniška družba (d.d.) is the joint-stock company, used for larger and listed businesses; because its shares are traded, the register shows no partner list for it. Both are managed by a board, with roles such as predsednik uprave (chairman of the board), član uprave (board member), and direktor (director), and may appoint a prokurist (authorised signatory).

Partnerships

The komanditna družba (k.d., limited partnership) and the družba z neomejeno odgovornostjo (d.n.o., general partnership) register in the court register. Their partners are listed in the register, so ownership is visible for these forms as it is for the d.o.o.

Sole Traders

A samostojni podjetnik (s.p.) registers in the Business Register rather than the court register and trades under the individual's own name. Sole traders have a basic public profile, without separate legal representatives, shareholders, or a court extract.

Associations and Institutes

Associations (društvo) and institutes (zavod) are non-profit forms registered with the relevant authorities and carried in the wider register. They have a basic public profile and do not carry shareholder data.

Summary

With Topograph

Topograph retrieves Slovenian company data from the AJPES business register.

Available Data

Company Profile

• Legal name with the registration number, tax number, and VAT number
• Legal form in Slovenian, with a standardized English category
• Status, active (Vpisan) or closed (Izbrisan)
• Registered address, share capital, and incorporation date

Legal Representatives

• Board members, directors, authorised signatories, and liquidators for court-registered entities, with roles translated and standardized

Shareholders

• Partners and their equity interests for limited liability companies and partnerships, with share percentage and nominal capital held; not available for joint-stock companies, whose shares are publicly traded

Available Documents

Activity classification codes are not published through the register, so they are not available for Slovenian entities. Beneficial ownership is held in the RDL register, which moved to legitimate-interest access in 2025 and is no longer openly browsable. Slovenia is covered for EU VIES VAT validation through its `SI` VAT number.

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