Latvia's Company Registry (2026 Update)

Latvia's Enterprise Register (Uzņēmumu reģistrs, UR) publishes current company data without authentication, but some useful layers sit behind a Latvian or EU eID login. The Kyckr team accessed it on 31 July 2026. This is what we found. 

What Is the Uzņēmumu reģistrs? 

The Enterprise Register of the Republic of Latvia (Uzņēmumu reģistrs, or UR) is the official source for company registration, ownership, and beneficial ownership data.  

Current entity data is free and needs no login. Access to historical records, downloadable documents, and data on natural persons requires authentication with a Latvian national eID, e-signature, or EU eIDAS credentials.  

What Data Is Available? 

• Basic (public access, no login): entity name, registered address, registration number, registration date, and legal status. 

• Officers: directors, board members, and authorised signatories (procurations). Full detail and history require authentication.

• Ownership: shareholders and members. Publicly, you see name and shareholding; the underlying documents require an account.

• Beneficial ownership: UBO name and shareholding are public. Supporting documents require login and download.

• Financial: annual reports and financial statements, available as documents and in the open financial dataset.

Shareholders, UBOs, and directors each receive a unique identifier, which makes cross-referencing individuals across multiple companies more reliable than name matching alone.

Which Entities Must Register?

Most entity types in Latvia must file beneficial ownership data. Sole traders and farms are the main exceptions.

• Limited Liability Companies (SIA): File director and board data, shareholders or members, and UBOs. This is the entity type you will encounter most often.

• Joint Stock Companies (AS): File director and board data, shareholders or stockholders, and UBOs.

• Partnerships, General (PS) and Limited (KS): File directors or managing persons and UBOs. Partner information is recorded, but there are no shareholders in the company-law sense.

• Cooperatives (KB): File director and board data, members, and UBOs.

Expect UBO and shareholder data to be present, with the caveat that full documentary evidence sits behind authentication.

How to Search the Uzņēmumu reģistrs

Step 1: Go to the Register's Information Portal

The public search portal is at https://info.ur.gov.lv/#/data-search. Switch to English using the EN toggle in the top right. The portal offers three functions across the top: Data Search, Publications, and Notices to creditors. A banner notes that documents, historical data, natural-person data, and detailed pledge data are available to logged-in users only.

Step 2: Search for a Company

Type a company name, registration number, or keyword into the search field. Results return live as you type, so a common term such as "tech" returns thousands of matches at once without pressing Enter.

Step 3: Review and Filter Results

Each result shows entity-level data without a login: name, registered address, registration number, registration date, and any exclusion date. A "Show" panel on the right filters results by register, including the Commercial Register, the Enterprise Register Journal, the Register of Associations and Foundations, the Mass Media Register, and a separate Register of beneficial owners of legal arrangements. The counts against each register tell you where an entity sits before you open it.

Step 4: Open the Company Record

Click an entity to open its record. The Overview tab shows the registration number, SEPA number, registration and exclusion dates, address, and capital. A banner repeats that documents, historical data, and natural-person data require login.

Step 5: Read the Persons Tab

The Persons tab splits into Members, Officers, Procurations, and Beneficial owners, each with a live count. Members show share percentage, nominal value, total, and member-from date. Beneficial owners show personal code, date from, residence country, and citizen country. Current data displays without a login. Each block has a "Historical" expander that returns "Please login to view historical data". 

Step 6: Check Status and Encumbrances

Further down the record sit structured status fields: insolvency proceedings, pledges, operating restrictions, reorganisation, branches, membership in other legal entities, securing measures, liquidation process, decisive influence, and other involvement. Each shows a current count and a historical view. Securing measures, for example, record prohibitions imposed by the State Revenue Service, with a case number and date. These fields are where adverse signals surface, so read them before clearing an entity.

Step 7: Use Publications and Notices

The Publications section has a chronological journal and a search function filterable by publication type (Changes, Liquidations, New, Reorganisations), status, and period. The Notices to creditors section covers the same, focused on liquidations and capital changes. Both are fully digitised and useful for reconstructing an entity's timeline.

Step 8: Authenticate for Documents and History

To download documents or see historical data, log in. The register accepts eID, eID Scan, and eParaksts mobile (qualified high-security identification); Smart-ID and eIDAS (qualified means); and bank identification through Swedbank, Citadele, SEB, BluOr, Industra, Magnetiq, Luminor, and Rietumu. Every route requires a Latvian or EU credential, so a non-EU analyst cannot self-serve here.

APIs and Open Data

The UR runs free, public API web services returning both data and documents, over REST and SOAP. The API sits behind a WSO2-based manager with an OAuth 2.0 security layer tied to Latvia's VISS PFAS authentication.

Latvia also publishes 30 bulk datasets in CSV at https://data.gov.lv/dati/lv/organization/ur, updated daily. Two further datasets sit on the European Data Portal: financial data from annual reports and the business register extract. Both of those European Data Portal sets are dated July 2024 and have not been refreshed since, so treat them as stale for anything time-sensitive and go to the live API or portal instead. 

Available Documents

Here are some of the documents the Kyckr team saw:

• Articles of Association: the company's constitutional document.

• Memorandum of Association: the founding agreement.

• Protocols/decisions of a company/organisation: shareholder or board resolutions.

• Application of shareholders or third persons for the acquisition of shares: share acquisition filings.

• Shareholders' register: the record of members and their holdings.

• Bank statements or other documents regarding the payment of the equity: proof of capital payment.

• Regulations for the increase/reduction of the equity: capital change filings.

• State Revenue Service decisions/letters/statements: tax authority correspondence.

• Decisions/letters/protocols of public notaries: notarial records.

• Orders/request/cover notes of court bailiffs: bailiff filings.

How Reliable Is the Data?

Latvia's register verifies well by regional standards but carries structural gaps that shape how far you can trust a clean result.

The register says it uses automated tools to cross-check submissions against other government databases, including the taxpayer register, land records, sanctions lists, and disqualified entities, according to the Business Register Insights 2024 data verification report.

Nominal directors are a known problem. Latvia has identified hundreds of cases of nominal directors, and such schemes are now under special supervision by the State Revenue Service (VID) and the police, particularly for companies set up to circumvent visa or tax restrictions. However, the use of unique identifiers for officers, shareholders, and owners does raise the bar.

2025 Reforms: What Changed and What It Means

Latvia tightened enforcement against shell and nominal-director structures in 2025. The register is now authorised to delete companies that have not filed reports for more than two years, which means an absence from current data may reflect a struck-off entity rather than one that never existed. Check the Publications and Notices journals to confirm which.

A larger change is pending rather than in force. Latvia has referred a question to the ECJ on whether GDPR requires a legitimate interest test before granting access to its shareholder register. Latvia has committed to keeping access public, including after 6AMLD, but if the court rules that the test must apply, public shareholder access may be restricted.

Access Structured Latvia KYB Data Instantly

The Uzņēmumu reģistrs offers strong verification and free current data, but the useful layers require a Latvian or EU eID that most foreign compliance teams cannot get.

Kyckr provides live access to Latvian company and beneficial ownership data, returning structured records and official documents without local credentials. Book a demo to find out more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can access the Latvian beneficial ownership register? 

UBO name and shareholding are public. To access supporting documents, you must create an account and authenticate with a Latvian or EU eID. A pending ECJ case may introduce a legitimate interest test for shareholder data.

What documents can I get from the register?

Company extracts, annual reports and financial statements, and ownership and UBO documents. The company extract and financial statements carry proof of authenticity and are the documents to order for an audit trail.

Does Latvia offer an API for the business register?

Yes. The UR provides free, public API web services returning data and documents over REST and SOAP, plus 30 bulk CSV datasets updated daily at data.gov.lv. The separate European Data Portal datasets have not been updated since July 2024.