The matični broj subjekta, the court-register number of a legal entity: nine digits, for example 080000604. Its check digit is advisory, because the register itself documents a few legacy numbers whose check digit does not match, so the API validates the format.

What is the difference between the MBS and the OIB?

The MBS is the court-register number and the OIB is the 11-digit personal and business tax number, with an ISO 7064 MOD 11,10 check digit. They are assigned separately, so neither can be worked out from the other. The EU VAT number is HR plus the OIB.

Does Prometiam serve Croatian directors or company events?

No. Croatian 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 Croatia.

Does Prometiam have Croatian insolvency notices?

No. Croatia 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, liquidation and pre-bankruptcy settlement states appear in the company's status.

Are Croatian sole traders included?

No. Sole traders (trgovac pojedinac) are never served, so searching for one returns nothing even though the business exists.

What is the Sudski registar (the Croatian court register)?

The Sudski registar is the Croatian court register, published as open data by the Ministry of Justice, Administration and Digital Transformation, and it is where the Croatian company records Prometiam serves come from. Every legal entity in it carries an MBS (matični broj subjekta): nine digits, such as 080000604 for INA - Industrija nafte d.d. The same entity also has an OIB, the 11-digit personal and business tax number, and the Croatian VAT number is HR plus the OIB.

The MBS and the OIB

The MBS is the court-register number, nine digits, and its ISO 7064 MOD 11,10 check digit is advisory: the register itself documents a few legacy numbers whose check digit does not match, so the API validates the format and a mismatch is a warning, not a rejection. The OIB is 11 digits with the same kind of check digit, and there it does gate: an OIB that fails it is refused. The two numbers are assigned separately, so neither can be worked out from the other. The EU VAT number of a Croatian company is HR plus the OIB: 27759560625 becomes HR27759560625.

Legal forms and status

The legal form is the register's own abbreviation, for example d.o.o. (limited liability company), j.d.o.o. (simple limited liability company), d.d. (joint-stock company), j.t.d. (general partnership) or k.d. (limited partnership). The status is one of active, in_restructuring (the pre-bankruptcy settlement), insolvent (bankruptcy), in_liquidation, bankruptcy_estate, liquidation_estate or deleted.

Activity codes, capital and accounts

The activity code is an NKD 2025 code, the Croatian national classification of activities, which corresponds to NACE Rev. 2.1, and it is served where the register publishes it. A record also carries the founding date, the share capital with its currency, the year of the last annual accounts and the OIB.

What Prometiam serves for Croatia

Company records from the Croatian court register (Sudski registar): 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 (trgovac pojedinac) are never served. Croatia is updated every working day.

Querying Croatian companies

GET /companies/search?company_number=080000604&country=HR returns the record, oib=27759560625 finds the same company by its tax number, and vat=HR27759560625 reaches it through its VAT number. The free MBS / OIB lookup runs the same call without a key.

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Official sources: Sudski registar · Ministry of Justice, Administration and Digital Transformation · open data set. Izvor: Sudski registar, Ministarstvo pravosuđa, uprave i digitalne transformacije (Otvorena dozvola).

Who supplies what

Name	What it is
Sudski registar	The Croatian court register. Its record is the source of the legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates.
Ministry of Justice, Administration and Digital Transformation	Publishes the register as open data, under the open licence (Otvorena dozvola) that asks for the source to be cited.
MBS	The court-register number of a legal entity: nine digits, for example 080000604. The key you store for the register record.
OIB	The 11-digit personal and business tax number. It is the base of the Croatian VAT number.

What a Croatian record holds

Field	Notes
Legal name	The registered company name.
Legal form	The register's abbreviation: d.o.o. (limited liability company), j.d.o.o. (simple limited liability company), d.d. (joint-stock company), j.t.d. (general partnership), k.d. (limited partnership) and others.
Status	One of `active`, `in_restructuring` (the pre-bankruptcy settlement), `insolvent` (bankruptcy), `in_liquidation`, `bankruptcy_estate`, `liquidation_estate` or `deleted`. A company in bankruptcy, in a pre-bankruptcy settlement or in liquidation shows as its own status, so it is not served as plain active.
Registered address	The address held by the register: street, postal code and city.
Activity code	An NKD 2025 code, the Croatian national classification of activities, which corresponds to NACE Rev. 2.1. Served where the register publishes it.
Founding date	The date the entity was founded.
Share capital	The amount, with its currency in `capital_currency`.
Last annual accounts	The year of the last annual accounts (`last_accounts_year`).
OIB	The 11-digit tax number of the entity.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Sudski registar?: The Sudski registar is the Croatian court register, published as open data by the Ministry of Justice, Administration and Digital Transformation. It is the source of the Croatian company records Prometiam serves: legal name, legal form, status, registered address, activity code and dates.
What is an MBS?: The matični broj subjekta, the court-register number of a legal entity: nine digits, for example 080000604. Its check digit is advisory, because the register itself documents a few legacy numbers whose check digit does not match, so the API validates the format.
What is the difference between the MBS and the OIB?: The MBS is the court-register number and the OIB is the 11-digit personal and business tax number, with an ISO 7064 MOD 11,10 check digit. They are assigned separately, so neither can be worked out from the other. The EU VAT number is HR plus the OIB.
Does Prometiam serve Croatian directors or company events?: No. Croatian 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 Croatia.
Does Prometiam have Croatian insolvency notices?: No. Croatia 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, liquidation and pre-bankruptcy settlement states appear in the company's status.
Are Croatian sole traders included?: No. Sole traders (trgovac pojedinac) are never served, so searching for one returns nothing even though the business exists.