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Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret)

Norway's open register data, including a VAT-register flag for every entity

Overview

The Brønnøysund Register Centre runs Norway’s business registers, including the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret). Norway is outside the EU, so Norwegian numbers cannot be checked in VIES; the register’s open API is the official alternative. Each entity is identified by a nine-digit organisation number, and the API rejects any value that is not exactly nine digits[5].

For VAT purposes the important field is registrertIMvaregisteret, a boolean showing whether the entity is in the VAT register, with a companion field for the date of registration in the VAT register[5]. The standard endpoints are published under the NLOD 2.0 open licence and the documentation’s examples use no credentials; endpoints that expose personal identification numbers are secured with Maskinporten[5]. The whole register can be downloaded as JSON, CSV or a spreadsheet, with files generated nightly at about 05:00[5], which makes local bulk screening possible.

The service answers a register question rather than issuing a consultation number, so the business must keep its own record of the result. Search queries are capped at 10,000 results, and the documentation recommends the download files for complete datasets[5].

Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret) features

  • VAT-register flag for each entity
  • VAT registration date field
  • Open JSON API under NLOD 2.0
  • Nightly full-register downloads (JSON, CSV, spreadsheet)
  • Nine-digit organisation number validation

Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret) pricing

Free. Open data under NLOD 2.0; some role data requires Maskinporten authentication.

Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret) strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Official source with a direct VAT-register field
  • Full-register downloads allow bulk checks
  • No API key for standard endpoints

Limitations

  • Norway only
  • No consultation or reference number
  • Documentation is extensive and partly Norwegian-named fields
  • Search results capped at 10,000 per query

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