What BORME does not publish

BORME API is built on BORME, the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry (Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil). The gazette publishes registered acts; it is not the whole registry, and some things people expect from company data are not in it. This page lists what is missing and what we do about each point.

Notices do not systematically give the NIF

BORME identifies a company by its name, its Registro Mercantil and its registry sheet (hoja); its notices do not systematically give the company's tax ID (NIF).

What we do: We link companies to their NIF using other public sources. Each link states its source and its confidence, and the API returns no NIF when it cannot resolve one.

Annual accounts are not included

Companies file their annual accounts with the Registro Mercantil, but BORME does not publish them.

What we do: We do not provide balance sheets or profit and loss figures. Filed accounts can be requested from the Registro Mercantil.

No beneficial-ownership data

BORME does not publish who ultimately owns or controls a company. It does print notices of sole-shareholder status and of changes of sole shareholder (socio único), and a sole shareholder is often another company.

What we do: We carry these acts as published and do not present them as beneficial-ownership data.

Registration is optional for most sole traders

Registration in the Registro Mercantil is optional for most sole traders (autónomos), so BORME covers only those who registered.

What we do: Published sole-trader entries appear under the SOLE_TRADER act type. We hold no data on sole traders who never registered.

Publication comes after registration

A registrable act is entered in the Registro Mercantil first and published in BORME afterwards, so the date of the act, the date of registration and the date of publication can differ. BORME is normally published Monday to Friday.

What we do: Every event carries its publication date and, where the gazette prints it, the registration date. Date filters work on the publication date. Events become available after BOE publication and our ingestion of that issue.

People are names, not identities

The notices name the people who hold positions without a personal identifier, so two people with the same name cannot be reliably told apart.

What we do: Searches by person match the name as printed, and results can include namesakes; the API documentation says so wherever it applies.

Registered acts only, from 2 January 2009

We process the registered acts of BORME (Section One, Entrepreneurs, Registered acts, published as BORME-A) from 2 January 2009. Other parts of the gazette, such as the legal announcements of Section Two (anuncios y avisos legales), and earlier issues are not included.

What we do: Text in a registered-act notice that the parser does not recognize is kept as raw text without being assigned an act type.

Not a certified extract

Our records are derived from the published notices. They are not a nota simple or a registry certificate.

What we do: Every event links to its official notice. Before drawing a legal conclusion, check that notice or Registro Mercantil documents.