The Centraal Insolventieregister (CIR) is the Dutch judiciary's central, public register of insolvency proceedings: faillissement (bankruptcy), surseance van betaling (suspension of payments) and the WSNP debt-restructuring scheme for natural persons. It is maintained by the Raad voor de rechtspraak and published at insolventies.rechtspraak.nl. A business is identified by its KVK number, and every publication in a case is recorded with its date and court.
Cases are removed six months after the proceeding ends. The CIR therefore shows what is open now and what closed recently; it will not tell you that a company went bankrupt in 2019, and anyone who mirrors it is bound to delete on the same schedule. The KVK Handelsregister, by contrast, is a paid and licence-restricted service, so there is no open Dutch company register to pair it with.
The court (rechtbank), the insolvency number, the debtor's names and trade names, the KVK number, addresses, the curator or bewindvoerder, the supervising judge (rechter-commissaris) and the full dated publication history: the opening judgment, replacement of the supervising judge, changes of curator, verification meetings, homologation of a composition, and the closure.
Prometiam serves Dutch corporate insolvency notices through GET /insolvency/search?country=NL, legal entities only, with the KVK number on every record, the court, the publication text and a link to the case. It mirrors the register's six-month removal, so it is a live picture of open and recently closed proceedings rather than a historical archive, and notices are not linked to company records because no Dutch company register is held.
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Official source: insolventies.rechtspraak.nl (Raad voor de rechtspraak)
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Rechtbank | The district court handling the case, such as Rechtbank Amsterdam or Rechtbank Limburg. |
| Insolventienummer | The case number, which stays with the case through every publication. |
| Debtor | Statutory name, trade names, addresses, and for a business the KVK number. |
| Curator or bewindvoerder | The trustee appointed to a bankruptcy, or the administrator in a suspension of payments or WSNP. |
| Rechter-commissaris | The supervising judge. Replacements are published as events in their own right. |
| Publications | The opening judgment, every later decision, verification meetings, a homologated composition, and the closure, each with its date. |