Company Registration Canonical Evidence
The Canonical Evidence the Doing Business Abroad Pilot uses in Use Case 1: Starting a Business in Another Member State.
Data Model
The UML diagram of the data model
Data Table
Entities and their definitions; attributes and their descriptions; cardinalities, reference vocabularies of the CompanyRegistration Canonical Evidence presented in a tabulated form.
| DE4A name | Property type | Cardinality | Data type | Related vocabulary | Controlled vocabulary | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LegalEntity | Class | 1 | ||||
| Company name | Object | 1..n | Names | This is the primary name of the company. Can be provided for multiple languages. | ||
| Company type | Datatype | 1 | String | CBV: legalEntity - companyType | ISO 20275 | |
| Company status | Datatype | 1 | String | CBV: legalEntity - companyStatus | BRIS | |
| Company activity | Object | 1 | Activity | |||
| Company registration date | Datatype | 1 | Date | |||
| Company end date | Datatype | 0..1 | Date | |||
| Company EUID | Datatype | 1 | String | BRIS: companyEUID | This is the identifier as registered in the DP Country formatted as EUID conform BRIS specification: country code + register identifier + registration number + verification digit (optional) | |
| Vat number | Datatype | 0..n | String | |||
| Company contact data | Object | 0..1 | ContactPoint | |||
| Company registration address | Object | 1..n | Address | Multiple occurrences allowed for different languages | ||
| Company postal address | Object | 0..n | Address | |||
| Branch | Object | 0..1 | Branch | The branch of the parent-company doing business in another MS; will not be used in first pilot iteration | ||
| Names | Class | |||||
| Legal entity legal name | Datatype | 1 | cvb:LegalEntityLegalName | CBV: legalEntity - legalname | Only different names if different xml language tags (ISO 639-1) are provided. Example:
<LegalEntityLegalName xml:lang="nl">Voorbeeldnaam</LegalEntityLegalName> | |
| Contactpoint | Class | |||||
| Datatype | 0..n | String | schema.org: contactPoint - email | |||
| Telephone | Datatype | 0..n | String | schema.org: contactPoint - telephone | ||
| Activity | Class | |||||
| NACE code | Datatype | 0..n | String | CBV: legalEntity - companyActivity | NACE | |
| Activity description | Datatype | 0..n | String | Description is only provided if NACE code can’t be provided.
Only different descriptions if different xml language tags (ISO 639-1) are provided | ||
| Branch | This is a branch of the parent-company that is registered in the same MS as the parent-company. If provided in the evidence, this branch is the entity doing business abroad. | |||||
| Branch name | Object | 1 | Names | This is the primary name of the branch. Can be provided for multiple languages. | ||
| Branch EUID | Object | 1 | String | |||
| Branch activity | Activity | 0..1 | Activity | |||
| Branch registered address | Object | 1 | Address | |||
| Branch postal address | Object | 0..1 | Address | |||
| Address | Class | CBV: Address | ||||
| PO Box | Datatype | 0..1 | String | Post office box number | ||
| Thoroughfare | Datatype | 0..1 | String | Street | ||
| Locator designator | Datatype | 0..1 | String | House number | ||
| Post code | Datatype | 0..1 | String | Postal code / zip code | ||
| Post name (city) | Datatype | 0..1 | String | City | ||
| Admin unit level 2 | Datatype | 0..1 | String | County / region / state | ||
| Admin unit level 1 | Datatype | 0..1 | String | ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 | Country | |
| Language code | Datatype | 0..1 | xml:lang | ISO 639-1 | Label indicating the language of the specific address. | |