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What is Brreg (Brønnøysundregistrene)?
Norway's central register authority runs one of Europe's most open company registers. Here is what it publishes, how the organisation number works, and how to query it.
Key facts: Norway
Register: Brønnøysund Register Centre
Identifiers Organisasjonsnummer
- Company recordsYes
- OfficersYes
- Insolvency noticesYes
- Corporate eventsRegister changes
- MonitoringYes
- Financial statementsAnnual accounts
- VAT numberFrom the register, if VAT-registered
- NACE classYes
- UpdatedDaily
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The short version
Brønnøysundregistrene (the Brønnøysund Register Centre, often shortened to Brreg) is the Norwegian government agency that operates the country's central registers. The one that matters for company verification is Enhetsregisteret, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, which holds every registered organisation in Norway — companies, sole proprietorships, associations, foundations and public bodies alike.
Norway is unusually open here. Enhetsregisteret is published as free open data with no registration, which is why Norwegian coverage tends to be more complete and fresher than most European registries.
The organisation number
Every entity gets a 9-digit organisasjonsnummer. It carries a modulo-11 checksum, so a malformed number can be rejected before you spend a lookup. Numbers currently in issue run from roughly 810 million upward, which is a useful sanity check — a 9-digit Norwegian number starting with a low digit is almost certainly not an organisation number.
Because it is a public identifier that round-trips to Brreg, Prometiam serves the raw organisation number as the company id for Norway rather than an internal surrogate. If you hold a Norwegian org number already, you can query with it directly.
What Enhetsregisteret publishes
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name and organisation number | Plus any previous names. |
| Organisation form | AS (private limited), ASA (public limited), ENK (sole proprietorship), NUF (Norwegian branch of a foreign company), and others. |
| Registered and business address | Including municipality code. |
| Industry code | NACE-aligned. |
| Status flags | Bankruptcy, liquidation and forced-liquidation flags, with dates. |
| Roles | Directors, chair, CEO and auditor, from the roles register. |
NUF deserves a note: a NUF is a Norwegian-registered branch of a foreign company, not a Norwegian company. It has an organisation number and appears in the register, but the legal entity behind it sits in another jurisdiction — so a NUF hit is not by itself evidence of a Norwegian counterparty.
One real limitation
Norway has no corporate-event gazette comparable to Spain's BORME or France's BODACC. There is no published stream of appointment changes, capital changes and mergers to draw on, so corporate-event endpoints return register-change events only (name, status, legal form, registered address), none before 14 Oct 2026. Company and officer data are current.
Norwegian bankruptcy is covered separately — Prometiam carries Norwegian corporate insolvency notices alongside France, Finland, Germany, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, the US and the Netherlands.
Querying Norwegian companies from an API
Prometiam serves Norwegian companies and officers from Enhetsregisteret alongside every other registry the API covers, under one schema and one key. Annual accounts as filed (the last three approved accounts) are served from the Scale plan. The Norway company data API guide shows the organisasjonsnummer lookup with roles and insolvency notices.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer rk_live_..." \ "https://api.prometiam.com/functions/v1/risk-api/companies/search?name=equinor&country=NO"
Norwegian company ids are the organisation number itself, so the id you get back is the id Brreg uses.
FAQ
How do I search for a Norwegian company by organisation number?
Type the nine-digit organisasjonsnummer or the company name into the free organisation number lookup to see name, legal form, status and municipality from Enhetsregisteret. The same lookup is available in the API as GET /companies/search?country=NO.
What is an organisasjonsnummer?
Norway's 9-digit organisation number, issued to every registered entity and carrying a modulo-11 checksum you can validate offline.
Is Norwegian company data free?
Enhetsregisteret is published as open data without registration, which is why Norwegian coverage is unusually complete.
What is a NUF?
A Norwegian-registered branch of a foreign company. It has an organisation number but the legal entity sits in another jurisdiction.
Does Prometiam serve Norwegian corporate events?
Only register changes (name, status, legal form, registered address), none before 14 Oct 2026: Norway publishes no corporate-event gazette equivalent to BORME or BODACC. Companies, officers and insolvency notices are served.
What is Brreg?
Brreg is the short name of Brønnøysundregistrene, the Norwegian agency that operates the country's central registers. For company checks the one that matters is Enhetsregisteret, the register of legal entities.
What does Brønnøysundregistrene do?
It operates Norway's central public registers. Enhetsregisteret, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, holds every registered organisation and is published as free open data.
Is Enhetsregisteret the same as Brønnøysundregistrene?
No. Brønnøysundregistrene is the agency; Enhetsregisteret is one of the registers it runs, the one used to verify Norwegian companies by organisation number.
Is Brreg the same as HMRC?
No. HMRC is the UK tax authority. Brreg is a Norwegian registry agency that holds the register of legal entities, not a tax authority.
What is the name of the Norwegian company register?
Enhetsregisteret, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, run by Brønnøysundregistrene. Entities are identified by a 9-digit organisasjonsnummer.