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Luxembourg
How to use Kausate in Luxembourg — 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.
Company data here comes directly from Luxembourg Business Registers.
What you can call here
| Operation | Status |
|---|---|
| Autocomplete | Live |
| Company search | Live |
| Company report Includes: Registered details. | Live |
| Shareholder graph | Live |
| List documents | Live |
| Retrieve a document | Live |
| Prefill | Live |
How to search
Use company search with jurisdictionCode: "lu". Pass a name as companyName. companyNumber is not supported here.
Examples
{ "jurisdictionCode": "lu", "advancedQuery": { "name": "ArcelorMittal" }}Company identifiers
companyNumber is not supported for Luxembourg. These schemes appear in a company’s identifiers.
| Identifier | Type | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg RCS Number Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register (RCS) number (e.g., B221010) | lu_rcs_number | ^[A-Z]\d+$ |
Identifier notes
- The leading letter of an RCS number gives the entity category: B is a commercial company (SARL, SA, SCA and similar), C a branch of a foreign company, D a European Company (SE), F a non-profit association (ASBL), G an economic interest grouping (GIE), and J a foundation.
Documents you can order
| Document | Order by | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Comptes Annuels Annual accounts (comptes annuels, deposit category COM) from Luxembourg RCS. Returns the most recent annual-accounts deposit for the company. | annual_accounts | Live |
| Acte Constitutif Articles of association / constitutional act (deposit category CON) from Luxembourg RCS. Returns the most recent constitutional-act deposit for the company. | articles_of_association | Live |
| Luxembourg RCS Extract Certified register extract (Extrait du registre de commerce et des sociétés) issued by the Luxembourg RCS, ordered on demand and delivered as a QES-signed PDF. | register_extractregister_extract_official | Live |
| Luxembourg Filing Document Filing/deposit document from Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register (RCS) | A document ID from the list operation | Live |
Order a document by its shortcut, for example annual_accounts. The other filings differ per company: call list documents first and order the ID it returns.
Local notes
Gotchas
| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| General partner shown at 0% | For an SCSp, only the general partner is filed, listed as shareholder at 0%. The limited partners, the actual investors, never appear, and 0% means undisclosed, not zero. |
| Struck-off extract is one page | The certified register extract for a struck-off company is a one-page Certificat de radiation with no ownership or capital data, under the same filename pattern as the usual multi-page ownership document. Check which document came back before parsing. |
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
radiée | Struck off the Luxembourg trade register. This status is returned in French. |
en liquidation judiciaire | The company is in a court-ordered liquidation. |
en procédure de dissolution administrative sans liquidation | The company is being dissolved through an administrative procedure with no formal liquidation phase. |
Certificat de radiation | A one-page certificate confirming a company has been struck off the register, issued in place of the standard register extract. |
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