Jurisdictions
Romania
How to use Kausate in Romania — what you can call, and which identifiers it uses
New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.
Operations
4 callable
Documents
None yet
Your own registry account
Not needed
Company data here comes directly from ANAF and ONRC.
What you can call here
What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.
| Operation | Status |
|---|---|
| Autocomplete | Coming soon |
| Company search | Live |
| Company report Includes: Registered details and Legal representatives. | Live |
| Financials | Live |
| Prefill | Live |
How to search
Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "ro". Pass the name as companyName. Romania takes no other search criteria.
Examples
{ "jurisdictionCode": "ro", "advancedQuery": { "name": "Petrom" }}Company identifiers
Romania has no number-based search: find a company by name, then use the kausateId search returns. These schemes label the values that come back in a company’s identifiers.
| Identifier | Appears as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Romanian VAT Number Romanian VAT identification number (cod de înregistrare în scopuri de TVA) - the CUI prefixed with 'RO', issued only while the entity is registered for VAT | ro_vat | ^RO\d{1,8}$ |
| Romanian Registration Code Romanian trade register registration code - J followed by 10 to 13 digits | ro_registration_code | ^J\d{10,13}$ |
| Romanian CUI Romanian Cod Unic de Identificare (CUI) - 1 to 8 digits | ro_cui | ^\d{1,8}$ |
Identifier notes
- A Romanian registration code's shape depends on the entity type, not a single fixed pattern: a registered company carries a J-prefixed code (e.g. J1997008302407), while an individually authorized trader instead carries an F-prefixed, slash-separated reference (e.g. F35/902/2018). Treat it as a free-form register reference rather than validating it against one regular expression.
- The Romanian VAT number is not independently issued — it is always the company's CUI with "RO" prefixed in front, and it is present only for the period the company is actually registered for VAT. A company can carry no VAT number at all, and one that later deregisters for VAT stops carrying it even though its CUI never changes.
Local notes
Gotchas
| Trap | What happens |
|---|---|
| Coarse representative types | A representative carries only a coarse type — natural person, legal entity, or foreign branch — never an officer title like director or CEO. |
| Two disagreeing status sources | Company status can come from two sources that can legitimately disagree: the trade register's own legal status, and — only when the trade register reports none at all — the tax authority's fiscal-registration state as a fallback. The fallback describes tax standing, not legal existence: a company struck from the tax register can still be legally active in the trade register, and vice versa. |
| Missing statements are normal | Many active companies have no filed annual financial statement for a given year; branches and sole traders never file one. An empty financials result isn't an error. |
| Unknown layouts return the year | A filing matching neither of the two known reporting-form layouts returns only the reporting year (and sometimes headcount), with no balance-sheet or income-statement figures, rather than failing. |
| Figures are absolute lei | Financial-statement figures are absolute RON (lei), not thousands — a filed net profit of 4,143,914,310 means that many lei. Don't assume unit-scaling from another jurisdiction. |
| Name split on the first word | A representative's name is published as one string, typically "SURNAME GIVEN NAME(S)", split on the first word: that word becomes the surname, the rest the given name(s); a single-word name is all surname. |
| Multiple offices, one type | A company can carry multiple registered offices, all tagged with the same address type — nothing distinguishes the current main address from a secondary or historical one. |
| NACE Rev. 2.1 tagging | The activity code is tagged NACE Rev. 2.1, reflecting Romania's January 2025 move to CAEN Rev. 3 (a transposition of NACE Rev. 2.1). An older code that predates the switch and doesn't resolve returns bare, with no scheme attached. |
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
funcţiune / funcțiune | Trade-register status: the company is active and currently trading. |
suspendare temporară activitate / întrerupere temporară de activitate | Trade-register status: the company still exists but has temporarily suspended its business activity. |
dizolvare | Trade-register status: the company is being dissolved. |
lichidare | Trade-register status: the company is being wound up (liquidation). |
radiată / radiat | Trade-register status: struck off the register — the company no longer legally exists. |
reorganizare / reorganizare judiciară | Trade-register status: undergoing court-supervised judicial reorganization, a form of insolvency protection. |
faliment | Trade-register status: the company has been declared bankrupt. |
insolvenţă / insolvență / procedură insolvenţă | Trade-register status: the company is in formal insolvency proceedings. |
INREGISTRAT | Tax authority's fiscal-registration word (used only when the trade register itself reports no status): registered and active on the fiscal roll. |
RADIERE | Tax authority's fiscal-registration word: struck from the fiscal register — no longer exists for tax purposes. |
SUSPENDARE ACTIVITATE | Tax authority's fiscal-registration word: activity recorded as suspended. |
RELUARE ACTIVITATE | Tax authority's fiscal-registration word: activity recorded as resumed after a suspension. |
PF | Representative type: a natural person (an individual). |
PJ | Representative type: a legal entity (a company). |
SUCURSALA_STRAINA | Representative type: a foreign branch of another company. |
SRL | Legal form: private limited liability company — Romania's most common corporate form, broadly comparable to an LLC. |
SA | Legal form: joint-stock company, Romania's form for larger corporations with tradable shares. |
PFA | Legal form: an authorized natural person — an individual licensed to trade in their own name, not a company. |
II | Legal form: an individual enterprise — a sole-trader form legally distinct from a PFA. |
IF | Legal form: a family enterprise, run jointly by members of one family without forming a company. |
RA | Legal form: an autonomous public enterprise — a state-owned commercial operator (e.g. a utility), not a private company. |
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