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Greece Business Registry Search: GEMI (businessportal.gr)
Search Greece's business registry, GEMI, at businessportal.gr in Greek or English, with the AFM as identifier; the portal publishes no extract fees.
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India company search: MCA21 (mca.gov.in)
India's MCA21 portal at mca.gov.in served a page titled Access Denied rather than the register, so search, fees and login screens could not be confirmed.
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Company Search Ireland: CRO / CORE (cro.ie)
Company Search Ireland is on the Companies Registration Office site at cro.ie; CORE, the CRO filing portal, served a challenge page titled Just a moment..., and cro.ie publishes no fees.
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Israel company search: Companies Registrar (ica.justice.gov.il)
Israel's Companies Registrar search is at ica.justice.gov.il, a Hebrew form with no login; producing a company extract (Nesach) costs 12.00 ILS.
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Search Italy Registro Imprese: InfoCamere Business Register
Italy's Registro Imprese is at registroimprese.it, with an English portal at italianbusinessregister.it; search is free and extract fees are not published.
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Search Japan Touki (登記・供託オンライン申請システム): Ministry of Justice Registry
How to search Japan's Ministry of Justice Touki portal and the NTA Houjin-bangou corporate number site; both are in Japanese and neither publishes extract fees.
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Luxembourg Business Registers RCS Search: Luxembourg (lbr.lu)
Luxembourg Business Registers at lbr.lu runs the RCS trade and company register; the search builds in the browser and no fees are published there.
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Netherlands Company Search: KVK Business Register (kvk.nl)
Search the Netherlands company register at kvk.nl, where the KVK Handelsregister finds companies by name or KVK number; extracts are paid, with no price shown on the pages checked.
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NZ Companies Register Search: New Zealand Companies Office
Search the NZ Companies Register at companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz by name, number or NZBN, with no account and no price published.
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Brreg Company Search: Norway Brønnøysund Register (brreg.no)
Search Norway's company register at brreg.no: Brønnøysundregistrene runs the organisation search in English at virksomhet.brreg.no, with open data and a NOK 424 notarised English version.
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Search Philippines SEC eSEARCH / DTI BNRS
The Philippines runs two registries: SEC eSEARCH at esearch.sec.gov.ph, which needs an account, and DTI BNRS at bnrs.dti.gov.ph for business names.
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Search Portugal Certidao Permanente (IRN)
Portugal's commercial register is run by IRN; a Certidao Permanente costs 25 to 154 euros at registo.justica.gov.pt, paid by multibanco reference.