CRO – Access to Data

Information on Companies and Business Names can be accessed on CORE, where the following information can found, where applicable:

• The Registered Entity Number
• The Registered Entity Name
• The Name of Person who has Registered the Entity
• The Address of the Person who has Registered the Entity
• The Registration Date of the Entity
• The Registration Status of the Entity
• The Last Annual Return Date of a Company
• The Next Annual Return Date of a Company

 
There is also an option to view certain submissions that have been filed with CRO by or in relation to any company. This information includes:

• The Submission Number of document
• The Registered Entity Number a document relates to
• The Type of Submission
• The Status of a submission
• The Received Date of a Submission
• The Effective Date of a Submission
• The Number of Pages in a Submission Document
• The File Size of a Document

The CRO offers software developers the ability to integrate the CORE facility (set out above) into their own applications using a set of RESTful Web Services known as “Open Services”. This enables the utilisation of basic Company and Submission data within separate applications. The service is free of charge but subject to CRO terms and conditions, and an acceptable usage policy.

It is also possible for Customer Account holders who are registered for Open Services to integrate the streaming of documents from the CRO into their applications. This enables developers to display a document for a submission directly to their customers and to dramatically cut the lead time in purchasing an image.

Cost per image is the same as it is to purchase the image directly through the CRO company search site.

Please Note: Software developers wishing to avail of the foregoing should have a degree of programming competence and experience in web services.

Technical information on CRO Open Services. – https://services.cro.ie/

The CRO supplies, under licence and for a fee, company and business name data in bulk format for high volume users.

This data is company information in respect of all companies on the register. CRO also supplies images of documents to bulk users under licence, again on payment of a fee.

Please Note: At present there are no options for purchasing subsets of the bulk data.

Bulk data is supplied via extracts uploaded daily by CRO to a secure location and available for download to bulk data customers using individual log-in credentials. Use of the data requires a degree of technical competence.

Further details on Bulk Data can be found here page.

The European Business Register (EBR) is a pan-European Organisation that supplies Company Register documents throughout Europe.

EBR end-users may use EBR to obtain Company Profiles of CRO-registered companies. This contains date of registration, company type and status, and registered office address.

End-users may also use EBR to obtain a subset of the available CRO document types, including Annual Returns, Annual Accounts, Memorandum and Articles and some other documents.

The EBR doesn’t hold any data or documents. Any requests are forwarded to CRO which fulfils them dynamically.

The CRO has agreements with a number of public authorities regarding the use of its data.

For more information on accessing CRO data, please contact itcro@cro.ie