What does BORME stand for?

BORME stands for Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil — the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. It is Spain's legal-publication-of-record for company events: incorporations, capital changes, director appointments, mergers, liquidations, and dissolutions.

BORME is published by the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (AEBOE) on behalf of the Ministry of the Presidency. It is published every business day in PDF form at https://www.boe.es/diario_borme/.

What data does BORME contain?

Each BORME edition contains legal notices from all 52 Spanish commercial registries (one per province). Covers company name, NIF (tax ID), legal form, registered address, capital, directors, shareholders, mergers, dissolutions, capital changes, and insolvency events.

Yes. BORME is a public record and the raw PDFs are free to download from boe.es. Extracting structured data from the PDFs is technically involved — Prometiam serves a structured dataset of 3.80M companies and 18.60M corporate acts via a free-tier REST API.

How do I query BORME data programmatically?

Use the Prometiam company data API. GET /companies/search?name=telefonica returns companies matching a name. GET /companies/{id} returns full detail including NIF, acts, and appointment history. Free tier: 1,000 requests/month, no credit card required.

What is BORME? Spain's Company Registry Explained

BORME (Boletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil) is Spain's Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. It is published every business day by the Agencia Estatal Boletin Oficial del Estado and carries legal notices from all 52 Spanish commercial registries, one per province. Whenever a Spanish company is incorporated, changes directors, raises capital, merges, enters insolvency, or is dissolved, the registry publishes a notice in BORME. These notices are Spain's legal-publication-of-record, referenced by courts, banks, and regulators.

What data is in BORME?

Incorporations: new companies, NIF (tax ID), legal form, capital, registered address, initial directors
Director and officer appointments and terminations
Capital changes, mergers and spin-offs
Insolvency (concurso), dissolutions and liquidations
Registered-office address changes and name changes

How it is published and processed

BORME is a daily PDF publication in two sections: Seccion I (empresarios) and Seccion II (legal notices and auctions), with roughly 30 to 50 province PDFs per business day. The raw PDFs are free on boe.es but unstructured, so the real work is parsing them. Prometiam turns them into typed, queryable records — one per company, with the corporate event, directors, capital and registry coordinates — served through a REST API.

Coverage and querying

Current coverage: 3.80M Spanish companies, 18.60M corporate acts, and 13.57M appointments, stored in the EU (Frankfurt) for GDPR compliance. A free API key unlocks company search, company detail, NIF lookup, and event timelines. Free tier: 1,000 requests per month, no credit card.

Frequently asked questions

What does BORME stand for?: BORME stands for Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil — the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. It is Spain's legal-publication-of-record for company events: incorporations, capital changes, director appointments, mergers, liquidations, and dissolutions.
Who publishes BORME?: BORME is published by the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (AEBOE) on behalf of the Ministry of the Presidency. It is published every business day in PDF form at https://www.boe.es/diario_borme/.
What data does BORME contain?: Each BORME edition contains legal notices from all 52 Spanish commercial registries (one per province). Covers company name, NIF (tax ID), legal form, registered address, capital, directors, shareholders, mergers, dissolutions, capital changes, and insolvency events.
Is BORME data free?: Yes. BORME is a public record and the raw PDFs are free to download from boe.es. Extracting structured data from the PDFs is technically involved — Prometiam serves a structured dataset of 3.80M companies and 18.60M corporate acts via a free-tier REST API.
How do I query BORME data programmatically?: Use the Prometiam company data API. GET /companies/search?name=telefonica returns companies matching a name. GET /companies/{id} returns full detail including NIF, acts, and appointment history. Free tier: 1,000 requests/month, no credit card required.