79 RON (about €16), by email in ~10 minutes, electronically signed
Ask for "an extract from the Romanian companies register" and what you get is the certificat constatator: the official certificate issued by the National Trade Register Office (ONRC) with a company's current recorded situation. It is Romania's equivalent of a UK Companies House extract or a German Handelsregisterauszug, and it is the first document a bank, a notary or a compliance officer will request about a Romanian counterparty.
What is in it
Identification data (name, CUI, the J registration number, registered office), legal form and status, the share capital, the directors with their powers, the direct shareholders with their stakes, the registered business activities, and secondary offices. It also states the things you hope not to find: dissolution, liquidation, insolvency mentions. The standard certificate shows the current situation; an extended version with full history, every change of shareholders, directors and address since incorporation, exists as a separate document, and the differences are covered in basic versus extended certificate.
Who can get one
Anyone. This surprises people used to restricted registers: Romanian company data in the Trade Register is public by law, and you do not need to be a shareholder, a lawyer or even an EU resident to request a certificate about any company. There is no legitimate-interest test, unlike the UBO register.
The three ways to obtain it
At an ONRC counter in Romania, which assumes you are in Romania and speak Romanian. Through ONRC's online portal, which requires creating an account, navigating a Romanian-only interface, paying by the portal's flow and waiting for processing during office hours. Or through an intermediary. Foreign document services resell the same certificate for €35 plus VAT and upward with delivery measured in hours or days; our English-language service issues it for 79 RON, about €16, delivered by email in roughly ten minutes around the clock, because the request is filed and paid at ONRC the moment your order confirms.
Is the emailed document an original?
Yes, and this is worth understanding before someone at your end asks for "the original paper". ONRC issues the certificate as a PDF carrying the institution's qualified electronic signature. The signed file is the original; a printout is merely a copy of it. Any PDF reader that validates signatures, or the EU's official validation tools, will confirm the signature. Banks and authorities across the EU accept qualified-signed documents under the eIDAS rules, though for use outside the EU you may need a certified translation, and occasionally an apostille, which the receiving institution will tell you.
What it does not tell you
The certificate reflects what the register records, not how the business is doing. It contains no financials, no tax debts, no court cases other than insolvency mentions, and its shareholder list stops at the first level, so a company owned by another company keeps its people out of view. For the money questions see financial statements; for the people behind holding chains, the UBO extract; for the full picture in one pass, the due-diligence checklist.
How fresh does it need to be?
The certificate has no printed expiry date; it photographs the register at the moment of issue. Romanian practice treats 30 days as the standard freshness window, and banks often want it issued within days of submission. Since a new one takes ten minutes, order it close to when you need it rather than stockpiling.
Fill in a form, pay online and receive the electronically signed document by email.
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