Irish companies register vs Registro Imprese: checking an Italian supplier
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In short: under the Companies Act 2014, an Irish company must have a registered office in the State, show its name on invoices, file an annual return, and its filings are kept by the Registrar of Companies; any person can inspect them for a prescribed fee. An Italian supplier is recorded instead in Registro Imprese, which has a free company search and gives access to visure, bilanci and fascicoli. Compare name, office and VAT number there.
Part of the guide Checking an Italian company: a guide for Irish businesses. All guides: Guides.
What the Companies Act 2014 says about the Irish register
- Registrar and office. Section 887: the Minister maintains an office for registering companies and may appoint a Registrar of Companies; the register holds the documents delivered under the Act, and the Act continues the CRO Gazette (Irish Statute Book: Companies Act 2014 (as enacted)).
- Registered office and name. Section 50: a company must at all times have a registered office in the State, and changes are notified to the Registrar within 14 days. Section 49: the name must appear on invoices, receipts and letters of credit.
- Annual return. Section 343: a company delivers an annual return to the Registrar not later than 28 days after its annual return date.
- Access. Section 891: on payment of the prescribed fee, any person may inspect any document received and recorded by the Registrar. Name and legal form, registered office address and registration number are available free of charge through the system of interconnection of registers, and changes are entered within 21 days of receipt of complete documentation (normal circumstances prevailing).
This is the Act as enacted in 2014; amendments since then are not covered here, and the practical way to search the Irish register is not described by this source.
What the Italian side offers
Registro Imprese, the portal of the Italian Chambers of Commerce, has a free company search by name or activity and gives access to visure (register extracts), bilanci (annual financial statements) and fascicoli (company files) (Registro Imprese, the Italian business register portal).
| Ireland | Italy | |
|---|---|---|
| Keeper of the register | Registrar of Companies (s. 887) | Chambers of Commerce, through Registro Imprese |
| Name on commercial documents | Required on invoices and receipts (s. 49) | Compare the full name with the form (S.r.l., S.p.A.) to the register |
| Registered address | Registered office in the State (s. 50) | Registered office address in the register |
| VAT number | Not part of these sections | Partita IVA, to be checked in VIES (Revenue: what are VIES and Intrastat?) |
Where Veryfy fits
Verifica (€19) reads Italian official sources and returns one report: beneficial owner, shareholders and directors, protests and insolvency signals, and an estimated operating credit line.
Every company product comes with a free Check anti-truffa (anti-scam check): it looks at the VAT number in the EU VIES register, free webmail or disposable email, domain age, domains flagged for malware or phishing, SPF and DMARC protection, the VAT number shown on the website, data breaches affecting the site, and whether the IBAN is correctly written and from a country consistent with the company.
The service and the report are in Italian, and they come from Italian official sources: company names, offices and procedures keep their original Italian wording. Veryfy does not offer a translated report, and checkout is in Italian for now.
Frequently asked questions
Can anyone inspect documents of an Irish company?
Section 891 of the Companies Act 2014 says that on payment of the prescribed fee any person may inspect any document received and recorded by the Registrar.
What is free in the Irish register data?
Section 891(7): name and legal form, registered office address and registration number are available free of charge through the system of interconnection of registers.
Is there a free search for Italian companies?
Registro Imprese offers a free company search by name or activity. Documents such as visure and bilanci are listed separately, so check the portal conditions before you order.
More in this cluster
- Italian supplier VAT number and VIES: a guide for Irish traders
- Irish beneficial ownership register vs the Italian titolare effettivo
- Recovering a debt from an Italian debtor: a guide for Irish creditors
- Italian company report glossary for Irish readers
Sources
Official sources opened and read on 2026-10-24.
- Irish Statute Book: Companies Act 2014 (as enacted)
- Registro Imprese, the Italian business register portal
- Revenue: what are VIES and Intrastat?
General information, not legal advice. Sources verified on 2026-10-24.
Frequently asked questions
Can anyone inspect documents of an Irish company?
Section 891 of the Companies Act 2014 says that on payment of the prescribed fee any person may inspect any document received and recorded by the Registrar.
What is free in the Irish register data?
Section 891(7): name and legal form, registered office address and registration number are available free of charge through the system of interconnection of registers.
Is there a free search for Italian companies?
Registro Imprese offers a free company search by name or activity. Documents such as visure and bilanci are listed separately, so check the portal conditions before you order.
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