What is an organisationsnummer?

The Swedish organisation number: ten digits written NNNNNN-NNNN, for example 556012-5790. The last digit is a Luhn check digit over all ten digits, so a malformed number can be rejected offline, and the third digit is always 2 or higher because a personal identity number (personnummer) never has one.

Is the organisationsnummer the same as the Swedish VAT number?

It is the basis of it. The EU VAT number is SE, the ten digits of the organisationsnummer and 01, so 556012-5790 becomes SE556012579001. Whether the number is VAT-registered and active is a separate question that only VIES answers.

Does Prometiam serve Swedish directors or company events?

No. Swedish records are company-level: legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates. There are no officers, no corporate-event stream, no monitoring and no registry-compliance signal for Sweden.

Does Prometiam have Swedish insolvency notices?

No. Sweden is not one of the nine insolvency markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL), and insolvency notices are corporate only. The register's own bankruptcy, restructuring, administration and liquidation states appear in the company's status.

Are Swedish sole traders included?

No. Sole traders (enskild näringsverksamhet) are identified by a personal identity number and are never served, so searching for one returns nothing even though the business exists.

What is Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office)?

Bolagsverket is the Swedish Companies Registration Office, and its register is where the Swedish company records Prometiam serves come from. Every Swedish legal entity in it carries an organisationsnummer: ten digits, written NNNNNN-NNNN, with a Luhn check digit and a third digit of 2 or higher, such as 556012-5790 for Aktiebolaget Volvo. The activity code on a record comes from Statistics Sweden (SCB), in the SNI 2025 classification.

The organisationsnummer

The last digit of an organisationsnummer is a Luhn check digit over all ten digits, so a mistyped number can be rejected before you spend a lookup. The third digit is always 2 or higher: a personal identity number (personnummer) has a third digit of 0 or 1, so a company number can never be mistaken for a person's. The EU VAT number of a Swedish company is SE, the same ten digits and 01: 556012-5790 becomes SE556012579001.

Legal forms and status

The legal form is Bolagsverket's organisationsform code, for example AB (aktiebolag), HB (handelsbolag), KB (kommanditbolag), EK (ekonomisk förening) or BRF (bostadsrättsförening). The status is one of active, bankrupt, in_restructuring, in_administration, in_liquidation, deregistered or merged.

Activity codes

The activity code is a five-digit SNI 2025 code from Statistics Sweden (SCB), written without a dot. SNI 2025 corresponds to NACE Rev. 2.1. It is served where it is published.

What Prometiam serves for Sweden

Company records from the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket): legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates; no officers, no corporate-event stream, no monitoring, no registry-compliance signal and no insolvency notices, and sole traders (enskild näringsverksamhet) are never served. Sweden is updated weekly.

Querying Swedish companies

GET /companies/search?company_number=556012-5790&country=SE returns the record, and vat=SE556012579001 reaches the same company through its VAT number. The free organisationsnummer lookup runs the same call without a key.

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Official sources: Bolagsverket · Statistics Sweden (SCB). Contains data from Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) and Statistics Sweden (SCB).

Who supplies what

Name	What it is
Bolagsverket	The Swedish Companies Registration Office. Its register is the source of the legal name, legal form, status, registered address and dates.
SCB	Statistics Sweden. It supplies the activity code, in the SNI 2025 classification.
Organisationsnummer	The ten-digit identifier of a Swedish legal entity, written NNNNNN-NNNN. The key you store.
Personnummer	The personal identity number, which identifies a sole trader. Personal data, so never served.

What a Swedish record holds

Field	Notes
Legal name	The registered company name.
Legal form	Bolagsverket's organisationsform code: AB (aktiebolag), HB (handelsbolag), KB (kommanditbolag), EK (ekonomisk förening), BRF (bostadsrättsförening) and others. The full Swedish name is in `legal_form_full`.
Status	One of `active`, `bankrupt`, `in_restructuring`, `in_administration`, `in_liquidation`, `deregistered` or `merged`. A bankruptcy, restructuring, administration or liquidation that is ongoing shows as its own status, so such a company is not served as plain active; an entity removed from the register is `deregistered`, or `merged` when it was removed by a merger.
Registered address	The postal address held by the register, where it holds one: street, postal code and city.
Activity code	A five-digit SNI 2025 code from Statistics Sweden (SCB), written without a dot. SNI 2025 corresponds to NACE Rev. 2.1. Served where it is published.
Dates	The registration date, which is also served as the founding date, and the deregistration date where there is one.

Frequently asked questions

What is Bolagsverket?: Bolagsverket is the Swedish Companies Registration Office. Its register is the source of the Swedish company records Prometiam serves: legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates.
What is an organisationsnummer?: The Swedish organisation number: ten digits written NNNNNN-NNNN, for example 556012-5790. The last digit is a Luhn check digit over all ten digits, so a malformed number can be rejected offline, and the third digit is always 2 or higher because a personal identity number (personnummer) never has one.
Is the organisationsnummer the same as the Swedish VAT number?: It is the basis of it. The EU VAT number is SE, the ten digits of the organisationsnummer and 01, so 556012-5790 becomes SE556012579001. Whether the number is VAT-registered and active is a separate question that only VIES answers.
Does Prometiam serve Swedish directors or company events?: No. Swedish records are company-level: legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates. There are no officers, no corporate-event stream, no monitoring and no registry-compliance signal for Sweden.
Does Prometiam have Swedish insolvency notices?: No. Sweden is not one of the nine insolvency markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL), and insolvency notices are corporate only. The register's own bankruptcy, restructuring, administration and liquidation states appear in the company's status.
Are Swedish sole traders included?: No. Sole traders (enskild näringsverksamhet) are identified by a personal identity number and are never served, so searching for one returns nothing even though the business exists.