Official company records for Italy, on demand

The Registro delle Imprese, the Italian Business Register, is the official public register of Italian companies. It is kept at provincial level by the Camere di Commercio, the Chambers of Commerce, with each register office operating under the supervision of a judge delegated by the president of the local court. InfoCamere, the information-technology company of the Italian chamber system, has run the register digitally from the outset and operates the official portals registroimprese.it and italianbusinessregister.it, which give access to data on more than six million companies and the roughly 900,000 financial statements filed each year.

The register's standard artefact is the visura camerale. The visura ordinaria reports a company's current position: identifying data, legal form, registered office, tax code and VAT number, REA number, digital domicile (the PEC certified e-mail address), the persons holding administrative office and, where applicable, shareholders and their stakes. The visura storica adds the full history of registrations and filings from first constitution onwards. A certificato, by contrast, carries legal certification value, remains valid for six months from issue and is enforceable against third parties.

Alongside the register sits the REA, the Repertorio Economico Amministrativo, which records economic, statistical and administrative information such as local units, changes of activity and technical managers. The Company Records report for Italy provides the registry extract sourced from the official register.