The Registers of Businesses, including the Business Register and the enclosed Repository of financial and administrative information (REA) provide a “picture” of each business, since the moment it is established. However, said “picture” is constantly updated, by recording any event and change a business undergoes throughout its life, until shutdown.

In order to provide reliable information, the aforesaid Register must be constantly updated and has to include exhaustive data. Hence, if they wish to obtain reliable and up-to-date business information, entrepreneurs must provide the Chambers of Commerce with data concerning their own enterprises, on their establishment, but also about any change occurring throughout their lives.

Questa banca dati, alimentata dalle informazioni delle anagrafi camerali e gestita da InfoCamere (la società di iThis database, encompassing the data provided by the Chambers Registers and managed by InfoCamere (the IT Company of the Chambers of Commerce), includes registration, administrative and financial data concerning single businesses (such as registration date, statutory structure, name, headquarters location, partnership/share capital, personnel and consultants, licences, authorisations and concessions, registration in Rolls, Registers, Lists, and so on).

Entrepreneurs are allowed real-time access to business-related information; they only need to enter the business’ registration number with the Chamber of Commerce (that is its tax code) as a password, or, for companies, either their names, or the name of one of their Directors or persons holding offices within the relevant enterprises. Besides obtaining detailed information about single businesses, it is also possible to search for data about business groups, by combining various search parameters (such as their composition, location, business area, legal structure, etc.).

It is clear, therefore, that the information provided by the database is extremely important to entrepreneurs, who are enabled to infer the data they need about the production capacity of single businesses and groups.
In order to streamline the above-mentioned operations, InfoCamere developed the Fedra, software, for the most frequent users of the Chambers information system (including notaries, agencies, business consultants, trade and professional associations, and single businesses). Said software allows quickly and easily filing registration and amendment applications with the Business Register; moreover, the Jorba, system allows surfing the Business Register data through a simple web interface.
Telemaco is a new interactive service, allowing registered users to go through all administrative formalities relating to the Chambers of Commerce on the web, thus entailing real-time access to the Chambers’ extremely large amount of information.

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The huge computerised business database also allows providing statistical information. Besides the data on businesses, their birth and death rates, it is also possible to obtain the following statistical information:
Businesses grouped by categories of employees;
Businesses grouped by legal structure;
Business Corporations grouped by share capital classes.

Documents filed in the Business Register
The national optical filing system of the Business Register files allows accessing files relating to the lives of businesses filed with the Chambers of Commerce. It is possible to access all the documents and relating mandatory enclosures concerning all types of companies, including those pertaining to insolvency procedures, business relocation, for both sole proprietorships and business associations, as well as some Business register-related forms and documents (including reference number receipts).

Lists of Shareholders
It is possible to obtain information from the Lists of Shareholders of stock companies and partnerships limited by shares (Spa e Sapa) which are not listed in regulated markets, (including consortia), limited liabilities companies (including consortia) and consortia performing external activities, provided that they are stock companies. Besides the ownership structure of business corporations, by accessing shareholder files and carrying out searches by names, it is also possible to know, the list of companies in which any natural or legal persons has shareholdings.

Business Corporation Financial Statements
The optical filing of business corporation financial statements with the Business Register allows making full copies or obtaining abstracts, according to the various indexation methods, of any original document. Hence, it is possible to obtain the operating accounts of a company, including its accounting prospectus, the relevant notes to the accounts and auditors’ reports, as well as the minutes of the Meeting during which they where approved. It is also possible to simply ask for the Profit and Loss Statement and the Balance Sheet alone, or just obtain the relevant notes to the accounts.

Insolvency Procedures
Business Register official information on insolvency procedures involving natural and legal persons can be obtained from the Insolvency Procedure Filing System, including data provided by Bankruptcy Courts.

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