Frequently asked questions

Eurcor is a public registry of verified corporate ownership structures — it maps the chain of ownership and control from a registered entity down to its natural-person beneficial owners (skutečný majitel), published as open, machine-readable OFN records.

Yes — searching the public registry is open to everyone, with no account needed.

Go to Search, type a company or person's name, and open a result to see its ownership and control structure.

The beneficial owner (skutečný majitel) is the real natural person who ultimately owns or controls a company, even through a chain of other companies.

English today, with Czech planned — every page will ship as an EN + CS twin, and Czech legal terms are kept in Czech so their meaning is preserved.

No. The public view is designed to show only name, birth month and year, country or citizenship, and the nature and extent of control — never a full address, exact date of birth, or detailed control mechanisms.

Journalism, civil-society and academic research, and obliged-entity due diligence qualify for the permitted tier; you'll attest your basis, and that access will be logged.

No. Competent authorities, financial-intelligence units, and law enforcement query under full access without notice to the company.

The Court of Justice of the EU (C-601/20, Sovim) struck down unconditional general-public access to beneficial-owner registers, so access is tiered and, above the public minimum, conditioned on a demonstrated legitimate interest.

Every record is a submission backed by proof documents and reviewed by a verifier before it is published; rating on three credibility dimensions — scope, documentary, and temporal — is planned.

Companies and authorised submitters lodge documented ownership structures; each one is verified before it appears publicly.

No. Verification records who reviewed the submission and the outcome, with reasons on rejection; it is informational, not a legal determination of beneficial ownership.

Not yet. Today a record's integrity rests on credentialed access and verifier review; cryptographic signing with public proofs anyone can verify is planned.

Three independent signals: scope (rozsahová — how much is verified), documentary (dokladová — what proof backs it), and temporal (časová — how current it is); recording them per subject and relationship at verification is planned.

You package the subject, its ownership structure, and proof documents into a submission and lodge it for verification; you first need credentials from the Request access page. The CLI and packaging library that automate this are planned.

A submission is lodged for verification and either accepted or rejected. A rejection returns with the reasons so you can amend and resubmit; accepted structures then appear in Search.

Whatever supports each claimed relationship — articles of association, board minutes or resolutions, share certificates or a cap table, trust deeds, and identity documents.

Not yet — the query/resolution API is planned. Search is live today, and you can already request access to be ready when it ships.

Records are source-backed and reviewed before publication, so treat them as a verifiable input to your checks — not a substitute for your own anti-money-laundering obligations.

Down to the natural-person beneficial owners, resolved through direct (přímé) and indirect (nepřímé) chains and joint holdings; the exact rule for multiplying shares across indirect layers is still being finalised.

25% is the beneficial-owner / significant-holder threshold set by the AMLR (Art. 52(1)); OFN records holders at or above it as significant, alongside control exercised by other means.

This is planned via an as-of query over each relationship's validity interval; today, current results should be read as "as of now."