Register of legal persons

The register of legal persons is a basic register according to Act No. 111/2009 Coll., on basic registers, which records reference data. The administrator of the register of persons is the Czech Statistical Office. The primary editors are authorities and institutions that are already legally obliged to register persons. These include the Commercial Register, the Trade Register, registers or information systems of selected ministries and central government bodies, professional chambers, municipalities, regions, etc. The Ministry of the Interior with the Data Box System (ISDS) is the secondary editor.

The subjects of the data kept in the register of persons are:

• legal entity,
• organisational unit and organisational unit of a legal person,
• organisational unit of the State,
• an internal organisational unit of an organisational unit of the State, if this internal organisational unit is entrusted by law with its own competence,
• an entrepreneurial natural person,
• a foreign person and an organisational unit of a foreign person,
• a trust fund, if they are entered in the register pursuant to this Act or another legal regulation.

The reference data on legal persons are:

• business name or designation or name, if applicable, and surname, if the natural person engaged in business is not registered in the Commercial Register,
• the name or, where applicable, the first and last names of the natural person engaged in business or of the foreign person and the organisational unit of the foreign person; if the person is entered in the population register, this data shall be kept in the form of a reference link (agency identifier of the natural person) to the reference entry in the population register,
• the agenda identifier of the natural person for the agenda of the register of persons,
• person identification number,
• date of creation or date of registration under other legislation,
• date of termination or date of deletion from the register under other legislation,
• legal form,
• type of data box and identifier of the data box, if this data box is accessible,
• the statutory body, expressed by reference to the population register or the register of persons or by the name, surname and residence of a natural person or the name and registered office of a legal person, if these persons are not entered in the population register or the register of persons,
• the liquidator, expressed by reference to the population register or the register of persons, or by reference to the name, surname and residence of a natural person, if applicable, or to the name and registered office of a legal person, if these persons are not entered in the population register or the register of persons,
• the guardian of a legal person, expressed by reference to the population register or the register of persons, or by reference to the name, surname and residence of a natural person, if applicable, or to the name and registered office of a legal person, if these persons are not entered in the population register or the register of persons,
• the insolvency administrator, expressed by reference to the population register or the register of persons, or the name, surname and residence of a natural person or the name and registered office of a legal person, where these persons are not entered in the population register or the register of persons,
• a receiver expressed by reference to the population register or by the name, surname and residence, where applicable, of the person concerned, if that person is not entered in the population register,
• legal status,
• the address of the person's registered office; if the building is a building recorded in the territorial identification register, this information shall be recorded in the form of a reference link (address location code) to the address reference in the territorial identification register,
• date of commencement of the activity at the establishment,
• the identification number of the establishment,
• the date of cessation of the activity at the establishment,
• the address of the place of establishment; where the building is a building recorded in the territorial identification register, this information shall be entered in the form of a reference link (address place code) to the address reference in the territorial identification register,
• the address of the place of residence in the Czech Republic in the form of a reference link (address place code) to the reference data on the address in the register of territorial identification, or the residence abroad of a natural person, a foreign person and an organisational unit of a foreign person; in the case of persons entered in the register of residents, the address of the place of residence in the form of a reference link (code of the agency identifier of a natural person) to the reference data on the natural person in the register of residents,
• interruption or suspension of activities under another legal provision; in the case of activities corresponding to one agenda, the interruption of all such activities.

Non-reference data on legal persons shall also be kept in the register of persons:

• a telephone number for the public mobile telephone network or an e-mail address for sending a selected range of information.

Operational data shall also be kept in the register of persons:

• agenda code,
• editor's personal identification number,
• date of initial entry in the register of persons,
• date of the last change to the data recorded in the register of persons,
• record of the use of the data from the register of persons.

Data editors are:

For non-referential data, the editor is the Czech Statistical Office.