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What is BORME?

BORME stands for Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil: Spain's daily company gazette and the legal-publication-of-record for every Spanish company event, from incorporation to dissolution.

Updated 11 October 2026

Key facts: Spain

Register: BORME (Registro Mercantil)

Identifiers NIF / CIF

  • Company recordsYes
  • OfficersYes
  • Insolvency noticesYes
  • Corporate eventsGazette notices
  • MonitoringYes
  • Financial statementsListed companies
  • VAT numberBuilt from the number
  • NACE classYes
  • UpdatedDaily

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The short answer

BORME (pronounced BOR-meh) stands for Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil — Spain's Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. It is published every business day by the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado and contains legal notices from all 52 Spanish commercial registries (one per province).

Any time 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 — they are what courts, banks, and regulators reference.

What data is in BORME?

Each edition contains structured legal notices across the following categories:

  • Incorporations — new companies, their NIF (tax ID), legal form, capital, registered address, initial directors
  • Appointments & terminations — every director, officer, or administrator change
  • Capital changes — share capital increases, reductions, splits
  • Mergers & spin-offs — with effective dates and involved legal entities
  • Insolvency — declarations of concurso, judicial administrators, creditor meetings
  • Dissolutions & liquidations — the entire wind-down lifecycle
  • Address changes — registered-office moves
  • Name changes — legal denomination updates

How BORME is published

BORME is a daily PDF publication with two sections:

  • Sección I — empresarios (commercial entities)
  • Sección II — anuncios y avisos legales (legal notices and auctions)

Each day publishes one PDF per province that had registry activity. In practice you get 30–50 PDFs per business day. The PDFs are free to download from boe.es/diario_borme, but they are unstructured text — parsing them into structured data is where the real work is.

What Prometiam gives you on top

BORME publishes the raw material as unstructured PDFs; the work is turning them into something you can query. Prometiam serves every notice as typed fields — company, NIF, legal form, capital, registry coordinates, directors and the corporate event itself — deduplicated to one record per company, enriched with activity codes and addresses, and reachable through the same endpoints and response shape as every other country the API covers. Spanish companies also carry AEAT large-tax-debtor flags and concursal proceedings where they exist.

Coverage: Spanish companies, their corporate acts and their appointments. Updated every business day. Hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). The Spain company registry API guide shows the NIF lookup, the administrators and the BORME events as one integration.

Querying BORME data

Via the Prometiam API, a trial key unlocks endpoints like:

GET /companies/search?name=telefonica
GET /companies/{id}
GET /companies/search?nif=A28015865
GET /company-events/timeline?company_id=123
GET /search?name=insolvency

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FAQ

What is BORME?
BORME is the Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil, Spain's official gazette of the Commercial Registry. Published every business day, it carries the legal notices of Spanish companies: incorporations, director appointments, capital changes, mergers, insolvency and dissolutions.

Which companies are in BORME?
Spanish companies registered in one of the 52 provincial commercial registries. Each notice names the company and gives its NIF, so every incorporation, change of directors, capital change, merger, insolvency or dissolution of a Spanish company appears there.

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 the structured records through a REST API with a 14-day free trial.

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 trial: 500 credits over 14 days, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.

What does BORME mean in Spain?
BORME means Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil, the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. It is Spain's daily gazette of company events: incorporations, director changes, capital changes, mergers, insolvency and dissolutions.

Is BORME a company or a government publication?
A government publication, not a company. It is edited by the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado and is the legal-publication-of-record for Spanish company events.

Is the BORME the same as the Registro Mercantil?
No. The Registro Mercantil is the public register where Spanish companies are recorded, kept by provincial commercial registries. The BORME is the gazette in which the acts recorded there are published.

Is the BORME the same as the BOE?
No. The BOE, Boletín Oficial del Estado, is Spain's general official gazette. The BORME is a separate publication for commercial-registry acts, published by the same agency at boe.es.

What is a BORME number?
BORME is a gazette, not a company identifier, so a company has no BORME number. A Spanish company is identified by its NIF, and each notice names the company with its NIF.