Saturday, 10 January 2009

Checking Romanian companies legal status

Joining European Union determined some improvements in the Romanian public organizations, as they became more transparent making available useful info on their websites.

It is possible now to check online the legal status of any company incorporated in Romania. This info is made available for free by Romanian National Trade Office at http://recom1.onrc.ro/cgi-bin/recom.cgi where you have to login as user=guest with password=guest and then search for the company name. If full name not known, searching for first letters will return a list of companies with similar names. Pay attention to companies with very similar names and avoid being fooled, by checking also the registration number of the company you are looking for. By law, the registration number of a company must be published on the web page of that company.
It is available only in Romanian language, but still a big step forward - there is now google language tools with Romanian support.

Thus you can avoid doing business with fake companies or companies that have legal issues, that cannot be anymore legally represented by any person (i.e. expired administrators), that are currently involved in a trial in court, that were declared as bankrupt a.s.o.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is good to know! Thanks for sharing this info.