Company Records for Reunion, on demand

Réunion is a French overseas department, and company registration there is the French national system applied locally. Since 1 January 2023 business formalities in France, Réunion included, run through the single electronic window and feed the Registre national des entreprises (RNE), the register operated by INPI, the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, which merged the former national register of commerce and companies, the trades register and the register of agricultural assets. INPI states that the RNE applies to every business operating on French territory except French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna, and publishes its data free of charge on its open-data service.

Commercial companies are also entered in the registre du commerce et des sociétés (RCS), which in Réunion is kept at the greffes of two courts, the tribunal mixte de commerce de Saint-Denis and the tribunal mixte de commerce de Saint-Pierre. The Cour d'appel de Saint-Denis states for each that the register of commerce and companies, where traders are required to register, is kept at its greffe, and under the Code de commerce the greffe of a tribunal mixte de commerce is held by a commercial court greffier. The Saint-Denis greffe explains that the greffier checks the legal regularity of the registration file lodged through the single window operated by INPI, validates it and sends the company its extract from the register, and that every later change must be declared to the register within one month.

Every registered business carries a nine-digit SIREN number, assigned by INSEE to each legal unit, in which the first eight digits carry no meaning and the ninth is a check digit, plus a SIRET number for each establishment; INSEE's Sirene repertoire expressly covers La Réunion. The extrait K or Kbis proves that a commercial business is registered in the RCS and can be obtained online. Beneficial owners are declared to the French register of beneficial owners, and since 31 July 2024 INPI grants access to that data only to the supervisory authorities listed in the Monetary and Financial Code, to persons subject to anti-money-laundering obligations and to persons or organisations demonstrating a legitimate interest.