Latvia company search: Register of Enterprises (ur.gov.lv)

TL;DR. Latvia’s Register of Enterprises (Uznemumu registrs, UR) is at https://www.ur.gov.lv, titled Uzņēmumu reģistrs in Latvian and Home Page | Latvijas Republikas Uzņēmumu reģistrs in English. Its English page on receiving information from registers held by the Register states that up-to-date public data on legal entities (name, registration number, status, current officials, legal address) is available without authentication and free of charge. Historical information is available to authenticated users and free of charge. Certificates, copies and data selection are available on request for a fee in accordance with the price list, and no amounts are given on that page. The company-data search at https://info.ur.gov.lv/#/data-search, titled UR informācijas portāls, builds in the browser and cannot be read from the page as delivered. Prices for the paid documents are therefore unknown rather than free; confirm at source.

What is the official Latvia business registry?

The Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republikas Uznemumu registrs, UR) is the government authority responsible for registering commercial entities and maintaining their public records. https://www.ur.gov.lv forwards to its Latvian pages at /lv, and the English home is https://www.ur.gov.lv/en.

The statutory foundation is the Commercial Law (Komerclikums, adopted 2000, in force from 2002). UR is a state institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice.

Entity types covered by UR include: Sabiedriba ar ierobezotu atbildibu (SIA, private limited company), Akciju sabiedriba (AS, joint-stock company), Pilnsabiedriba (PS, general partnership), Komanditsabiedriba (KS, limited partnership), individual merchants (Individualis komersants), European companies (SE), and branches and representative offices of foreign companies.

Latvia participates in the EU Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS).

The receive-information page also states that info.ur.gov.lv provides up-to-date and historical information on rightholders and natural persons registered in the Enterprise Register, including their officials, participation in companies, beneficial owners, securities and other registered legal facts. That describes what the information portal covers rather than what its search screen looks like.

What can you search?

Public information (from the English receive-information page):

• Up-to-date data on legal entities: name, registration number, status, current officials, legal address, and similar fields
• Available without authentication and free of charge

Historical information (same page):

• Previous records, history of changes, former statuses and names, and documents from the public part of the registration file
• Available to authenticated users and free of charge

Search screen:

https://info.ur.gov.lv/#/data-search builds its screen in the browser, so how its search box behaves could not be confirmed; confirm at source.

Paid documents (same page):

Certificates, copies, and data selection are described as available on request for a fee in accordance with the price list. No amounts are given on that page.

How much does it cost?

No prices for the paid documents appear on the receive-information page, so those rows read unknown rather than free; confirm at source. The free-of-charge statements apply to public and historical information as quoted above. Payment methods are not published there either.

Do you need a local account or ID?

No authentication is needed for up-to-date public data, per the English receive-information page. Historical information requires authentication, per that page. Whether the Latvian e-government login at latvija.lv is a practical filing route for a foreign buyer is not stated there; confirm at source.

Is the website in English?

Partial. https://www.ur.gov.lv/en loads with English navigation, including Search for Company Data. Official documents are issued in Latvian. The info.ur.gov.lv search host carries a Latvian title and builds its screen in the browser.

What’s the turnaround time?

Unknown. The site publishes no turnaround time, and the search application could not be read from the page as delivered; confirm at source.

Is there an API?

No public developer API is documented on the site. The English home lists Access Information Through Automated Data Exchange as a service for dissemination between information systems in Latvia and Europe, which is not a public API. Latvia participates in BRIS for basic cross-border company data.

What you legally cannot do

Latvia implements GDPR through the Personal Data Processing Law (Fizisko personu datu apstrades likums, in force 2018). Director and shareholder natural persons are data subjects; processing their personal data from UR for marketing or profiling without a valid legal basis under GDPR Article 6 is not permitted.

The UR portal terms of use prohibit systematic automated extraction of data from the web interface. Certified documents from UR are official records.

Following the 2022 CJEU ruling on beneficial ownership registers, the current access rules for natural-person beneficial owners are not stated on these pages; confirm at source. The receive-information page does list beneficial owners among the categories covered by info.ur.gov.lv.

Practical tips for foreign compliance buyers

• Registration number is the anchor identifier. Every Latvian commercial entity has a unique registration number (Registracijas numurs).
• SIA dominates the registry. The SIA is the private limited company, the default structure for most Latvian SMEs and foreign-owned operations.
• info.ur.gov.lv builds its search in the browser. The free-of-charge rule comes from the English pages on ur.gov.lv, not from a search-results screen.
• Document language. Official UR documents are in Latvian. A sworn translator (zverinats tulks) is typically required for use outside Latvia.
• Latvia and EU BRIS. For initial EU cross-border screening, BRIS provides an English-language starting point.

Alternatives if you cannot access the registry directly

• Aggregator search (indicative only): OpenCorporates indexes Latvia’s Register of Enterprises data.
• BRIS portal: Latvia participates in the EU Business Registers Interconnection System.
• Commercial data providers: See local suppliers.

Local data suppliers

• Creditinfo Latvia (creditinfo.lv). Creditinfo Group’s Latvian entity, providing company credit reports, payment behavior data, and risk scoring.
• CRIF (crif.com). Latvian company credit reports through its European network.

Use UR for the official filing record. Use a credit bureau when you need payment behavior or risk scoring on top of the registry extract.

FAQ

Can a foreign company access the Latvia Register of Enterprises directly?

Yes. ur.gov.lv is reachable, and up-to-date public legal-entity data is stated to be available without authentication and free of charge. The data-search application at info.ur.gov.lv builds in the browser, so its screens could not be read here.

What is the registration number format in Latvia?

Latvian commercial entity registration numbers are 11-digit codes. The English pages do not set out the digit structure; confirm at source.

What entity types are registered with the Latvia Register of Enterprises?

UR registers SIA, AS, PS, KS, individual merchants, European companies (SE), cooperative societies, and branches and representative offices of foreign companies. Non-profit organizations and associations are maintained in a related register also administered by UR.

Does Latvia have a beneficial ownership (UBO) registry?

The receive-information page lists beneficial owners among the information covered by info.ur.gov.lv. The search screen for those records could not be read, so a public download of beneficial ownership data is not confirmed; confirm at source.

How current is the data in the Latvia Register of Enterprises?

The page describes info.ur.gov.lv as providing up-to-date and historical information. Filing deadlines in the Commercial Law are not restated on a results screen; confirm at source.

Is Latvia on the FATF grey list?

No. Latvia is not on the FATF grey list. Latvia is an EU member state; confirm at source at fatf-gafi.org.

What is the difference between the Register of Enterprises and the tax authority?

UR handles company registration, structural data, and corporate governance filings. Tax registration, VAT numbers, and tax compliance are administered by the State Revenue Service (Valsts ienemumu dienests, VID, vid.gov.lv).

Last verified: September 2026. Sources: ur.gov.lv/lv and ur.gov.lv/en; ur.gov.lv/en/services/receive-information-registers-held-register, which states that public data is free of charge; info.ur.gov.lv/#/data-search, which builds in the browser. For the full global due diligence framework, see our Global Business Due Diligence Guide.