Latvia

How to use Kausate in Latvia — what you can call, which identifiers it uses, and which documents you can order

New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.

Operations

9 callable

Documents

2 orderable

Your own registry account

Not needed

Company data here comes directly from Uzņēmumu reģistrs.

What you can call here

What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.

Operation	Status
Autocomplete	Live
Company search	Live
Company report Includes: Registered details, Legal representatives and Shareholders.	Live
Shareholder graph	Live
Beneficial owners	Live
Financials	Live
List documents	Live
Retrieve a document	Live
Prefill	Live

Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "lv". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as registrationNumber.

Fields

To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. Latvia understands these fields:

Field	What it does
`name`	Company name to search for.
`registrationNumber`	Latvian UR registration number, usually 11 digits.
`vatNumber`	Latvian VAT number (LV + registration number).

Examples

{  "jurisdictionCode": "lv",  "advancedQuery": {    "registrationNumber": "40003245752"  }}

Latvia also accepts vatNumber.

Company identifiers

Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier	Appears as	Format
Latvian Registration Number Latvian Enterprise Register (UR) registration number - 11 digits	`lv_registration_number`	`^\d{11}$`
Legacy Enterprise Registry Number	`lv_legacy_enterprise_registry_number`	No fixed format
Legacy Registration Number	`lv_legacy_registration_number`	No fixed format
Taxpayer Registration Number	`lv_taxpayer_registration_number`	No fixed format
UR Entity Code	`lv_ur_entity_code`	No fixed format
Masked Latvian Personal Code Latvian personal code masked by the Enterprise Register; captured exactly as the register prints it	`lv_masked_personal_code`	No fixed format

Identifier notes

The Latvian personal identification code is published in masked form, DDMMYY-*****: the visible prefix gives a person's day, month and two-digit year of birth, but the century digit and the trailing sequence are always redacted. It cannot tell you whether someone was born in the 1900s or 2000s, and on its own is not enough to uniquely identify them — treat it as a partial identifier, not a full one.

Documents you can order

Document	Order by	Status
Latvian Document Latvian filing identified by a kausateDocumentId from the document list.	A document ID from the list operation	Live
Latvian Register Extract Official Latvian Enterprise Register report PDF covering overview, officers, members/shareholders and beneficial owners, digitally sealed and carrying the registry's 'true and reliable' attestation.	`register_extract` `register_extract_official` `shareholders_list`	Live

Documents with a shortcut are ordered directly by that name — for example register_extract. The rest are filings whose availability differs per company: call list documents first and order the ID it returns.

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
One record per ownership type	Indirect beneficial ownership through intermediary companies returns one ownership-interest record per ownership type along the chain, not one per intermediary — intermediaries appear only in that record's descriptive text.
Obsolete forms return nothing	About 1,300 long-inactive companies under two obsolete legal forms — most closed decades ago — return no officers or shareholders: a register-side gap, not evidence the data never existed.
Depository-held shares unavailable	Publicly-traded joint-stock companies with shares held at the Nasdaq Baltic central securities depository always return shareholders as unavailable — the register doesn't publish ownership data for depository-held shares.
Percentage from share count	Ownership percentage is calculated from share count relative to total shares outstanding, not monetary value — reliable even though older companies may still price shares in the pre-2014 currency, lati, rather than euros.
Only the consolidated extract downloads	Only the consolidated official register extract is downloadable. Individual filings — annual reports, articles of association, board-meeting minutes — are listed but always fail to download.

Glossary

Term	Meaning
`SIA`	Sabiedrība ar ierobežotu atbildību — a private limited liability company, the Latvian equivalent of an LLC.
`AS`	Akciju sabiedrība — a joint-stock company, the form used by larger and publicly-traded businesses.
`IK`	Individuālais komersants — a registered sole trader: a natural person doing business under their own commercial registration, not a separate legal entity.