3. Beneficial Owners
When applying for changes to the stockholders of a joint stock company, information on the beneficial owner (BO) of the joint stock company must also be provided in the application. If the information on the registered BO has not changed, this must be confirmed in the application.
Information on the BO of a joint stock company:
- name;
- surname;
- personal identity number (if the person has no personal identity number - the date, month, year of birth, the number of the personal identification document and the date of issue thereof, the country and body issuing the document);
- nationality (-ies);
- country of permanent place of residence;
- manner of exercising control over the joint stock company:
- through a status in the legal person (if the BO is a stockholder):
- as a stockholder;
- as a separate person who controls (if the BO is an indirect owner of, or exercises indirect control over, the joint stock company):
- on the basis of an authorization agreement;
- on the basis of ownership right (for example, if the BO is the owner of a legal person that is a stockholder of the joint stock company);
- through the legal arrangement as a founder;
- through the legal arrangement as an authorizing person;
- through the legal arrangement as a protector (if applicable);
- through the legal arrangement as a beneficiary or a category of beneficiaries;
- on the basis of a business relationship;
- other (free‑text field allowing the entry of an undefined manner of control);
- through a status in the legal person (if the BO is a stockholder):
- extent of control exercised;
- information regarding the person with whose intermediation the control is being exercised (to be provided where any of the methods referred to in subparagraphs 6.2 or 6.3 has been indicated as the manner of exercising control over the joint stock company):
- for a natural person: name, surname, personal identity number (if the person has no personal identity number - the date, month, year of birth);
- for a legal person (including a foreign legal person): name, registration number and legal address.
The Register of Enterprises is entitled to request documentary justification of the exercised control and also a document certifying the compliance of the information identifying the BO (a notarised copy of the personal identification document, a statement from a foreign population register, or other documents equivalent to the abovementioned documents) or documents justifying the certification that it is not possible to determine the BO.