Slovenia Company Lookup: A Register That Knows Abroad

A Slovenia company lookup runs through the Poslovni register Slovenije (PRS), kept by AJPES — the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services. Registration of companies in the court register is decided by the registrska sodišča. The search is ePRS at ajpes.si/prs, and open data sits on the national portal. This guide covers a field no other register in this series carries, how the register searches by person, and where a PRS entry is the authority and where it is a copy. If you need the Slovenian population rather than one company at a time, the Slovenia company directory covers the same registered entities with industry, size and contact breakdowns attached, and the Slovenia business database is the same file described as a dataset.

Slovenia company lookup: the short version

• The PRS lets you check whether a business entity has open accounts abroad — a field no other register in this series carries.
• You can search by person and establish whether someone is a founder, partner, representative or member of a supervisory body, and at which entity.
• AJPES's website publications replace publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, and are free.
• The PRS is a primary register for some entities and a derived one for others — for associations and foundations the authority sits elsewhere.

A register that knows about accounts abroad

AJPES introduces its own register with a question, and the question is the most unusual field in this series:

"Ste vedeli, da lahko v PRS preverite, ali ima poslovni subjekt odprte račune v tujini? Poleg vpogleda v različne registrske podatke lahko iščete tudi po osebah in ugotovite, ali je določena fizična / pravna oseba ustanovitelj, družbenik, zastopnik ali član organa nadzora v poslovnem subjektu in pri katerem subjektu nastopa v tej vlogi."

Did you know that in the PRS you can check whether a business entity has open accounts abroad? Besides inspecting various register data, you can also search by persons and establish whether a particular natural or legal person is a founder, partner, representative or member of a supervisory body in a business entity, and at which entity they appear in that role.

Take the first half exactly as it is written, because the temptation to extend it is strong and everything past the sentence is unsourced. AJPES says you can check whether an entity has open accounts abroad. It does not say which accounts, in which countries, at which institutions, from what date, or how current the information is. This page states what the source states and stops there; a guide that filled in the rest would be inventing the part a reader would actually rely on.

Where it plausibly comes from is worth one clause, carefully phrased. AJPES names the data sources feeding the PRS, and among them are the Banka Slovenije, banks, and the Centralno klirinško-depotna družba — the central clearing and depository company. That is an observation about the provenance AJPES publishes, not a derivation: among its sources, not therefore.

The sources are published in full, and that is rare

The list itself deserves reproducing, because a register describing its own provenance this openly is uncommon. AJPES names: the Finančna uprava Republike Slovenije (the financial administration), the Centralni register prebivalstva (the central population register), the Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije (the Supreme Court), the courts, the Centralno klirinško-depotna družba, the Banka Slovenije, banks, the Geodetska uprava Republike Slovenije (the surveying and mapping authority), the Ministrstvo za javno upravo, the Uprava Republike Slovenije za javna plačila (the public payments administration), other bodies, and the business entities themselves.

Eleven named feeds and the entities' own submissions. For anyone assessing what a register can plausibly know, a published source list is worth more than a field list — it tells you the shape of what is reachable.

Searching by person

The second half of the AJPES sentence is a person search, and the four roles are named precisely: ustanovitelj (founder), družbenik (partner), zastopnik (representative) and član organa nadzora (member of a supervisory body) — with the entity at which the person appears in that role.

Two other registers in this series answer the person question, and the three answers are genuinely different.

The Croatia company lookup guide covers a register that publishes the person-level view: by personal identification number, the entities in which someone is or was registered, their functions, and the periods held. The Norway company lookup guide covers a register where the underlying roles are open public data but building a cross-entity view of one person is restricted by statute to roles connected to commercial activity. Slovenia offers the search.

Three states, three positions, and this page does not rank them. Publishing the view, restricting the combination, and providing the search are three different things, and the difference matters to anyone designing a process that touches more than one of them.

What a Slovenian company register entry contains

A self-contained summary. Slovenia's business register is the Poslovni register Slovenije (PRS), kept by AJPES, the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services, and searched through ePRS at ajpes.si/prs; registration of companies in the court register is decided by the registrska sodišča. AJPES states that in the PRS you can check whether a business entity has open accounts abroad, and that besides inspecting register data you can search by persons and establish whether a particular natural or legal person is a founder, partner, representative or member of a supervisory body in a business entity, and at which entity. The PRS draws on the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the central population register, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia, the courts, the central clearing and depository company, the Bank of Slovenia, banks, the Surveying and Mapping Authority, the Ministry of Public Administration, the Public Payments Administration, other bodies, and the business entities themselves. The PRS is a primary register for entities that the law says register only there, and for entities created directly by or under a regulation which enter no other register; for all others — associations, foundations, political parties and natural persons carrying on a registered activity — it is a derived register, those entities registering in a primary register or official record with another registry body, after which AJPES enters them in the PRS. AJPES states that it ensures the publicity of business (court) register data by publishing it free of charge on the AJPES web portal ePRS and by providing register data for primary and re-use, and that publications on AJPES's web pages replace publications in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia and are accessible free of charge. AJPES publishes a list of units entered in the PRS with basic public data — matična številka, full name, business address, legal organisational form, registry body and the unique address identifier HSMID — on the Slovenian open data portal OPSI, refreshed twice monthly and available free for re-use in CSV, with an XML file also published twice a month. AJPES transmits information on capital companies through the national node of the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), accessible on the European e-Justice Portal, and takes part in data exchange with states in the Internal Market Information system (IMI). AJPES has kept the PRS since 2002, has been the registry body for sole traders since 2005 and for room-letters since 2008, deciding on entry, change and deletion under the general administrative procedure, and since 2007 also keeps the register of digital certificates of representatives of business entities.

The website replaces the gazette

Slovenia puts legal publicity in an unusual place, and says so plainly:

"Javnost podatkov poslovnega (sodnega) registra AJPES zagotavlja z brezplačno objavo podatkov na spletnem portalu AJPES (ePRS) ter z zagotavljanjem podatkov poslovnega registra za primarno in ponovno uporabo."

AJPES ensures the publicity of business (court) register data by publishing it free of charge on the AJPES web portal (ePRS) and by providing register data for primary and re-use.

And then the sentence that moves the legal weight:

"Objave na spletnih straneh AJPES nadomeščajo objave v Uradnem listu Republike Slovenije in so dostopne brezplačno."

Publications on AJPES's web pages replace publications in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, and are accessible free of charge.

Set that beside another register in this series and the two run in opposite directions. The Switzerland company lookup guide covers a system where an entry becomes legally effective against third parties only upon publication in the gazette — the SHAB — so the gazette is where the legal effect lands and the index is explicitly without it. Slovenia moves the publication out of the gazette and onto the register's own website.

Two states, two locations for legal publicity, and neither is presented here as better. The practical point is for anyone building a monitoring process: in one country the gazette is the event, and in the other the website is.

Where a Slovenia lookup stops: primary and derived

The most consequential thing to know before relying on a PRS entry is which kind of entry it is.

The PRS is a primary register for entities that the law says register only there, and for entities created directly by or under a regulation which enter no other register.

For all others — associations, foundations, political parties, and natural persons carrying on a registered activity — it is a derived register. Those entities register in a primary register or official record with another registry body, and AJPES then enters them in the PRS.

That distinction is a trap for exactly the reason it is easy to miss: the PRS entry looks the same either way. For an association or a foundation, the PRS record is downstream of another body, so the authority sits elsewhere — and a discrepancy between the PRS and that other register is not automatically an error in the PRS. Anyone verifying a Slovenian association or foundation should know which body decided the registration before treating a PRS field as authoritative.

Three further facts locate the register in its wider system. AJPES transmits information on capital companies through the national node of BRIS, the Business Registers Interconnection System, accessible on the European e-Justice Portal, and takes part in data exchange with states in the Internal Market Information system (IMI). AJPES has kept the PRS since 2002, has been the registry body for sole traders since 2005 and for room-letters since 2008, deciding on entry, change and deletion under the general administrative procedure. And since 2007 it also keeps the register of digital certificates of representatives of business entities.

Where the question is a population rather than a company, a firmographic directory covers the same registered entities with classification, size and contact data attached and queryable as a set; the Europe company directory breaks the European file down by market.

The open data is partial, with a stated cadence

AJPES describes what it opens, and it is worth having exactly.

"AJPES objavlja seznam enot (poslovnih subjektov in njihovih delov), vpisanih v PRS, z osnovnimi javnimi podatki (matična številka, popolno ime, poslovni naslov, pravnoorganizacijska oblika, registrski organ in enolični identifikator naslova HSMID) na portalu Odprti podatki Slovenije (OPSI). Podatki so osveženi dvakrat mesečno in uporabnikom na voljo brezplačno za ponovno uporabo v formatu CSV."

AJPES publishes a list of units — business entities and their parts — entered in the PRS, with basic public data: matična številka (the registration number), full name, business address, legal organisational form, registry body, and the unique address identifier HSMID — on the Slovenian open data portal OPSI. The data is refreshed twice monthly and available free for re-use in CSV. The national portal adds the same in XML: "AJPES je delno odprl podatke iz PRS in dva krat mesečno objavi datoteko v xml obliki z osnovnimi podatki iz PRS." — AJPES has partially opened the PRS data and publishes an XML file with basic PRS data twice a month.

That is a partial opening with a stated cadence, and calling it a limitation would misdescribe it. Six basic fields, twice a month, free, in two formats, with the scope and the frequency both published. A reader knows exactly what they are getting before they take it — which is more than several fuller openings in this series offer. What it is not is the register: the accounts-abroad check and the person search are ePRS features, not fields in the open file.

Data quality pitfalls to avoid in Slovenia

Extending the accounts-abroad check beyond what AJPES states. The source says you can check whether an entity has open accounts abroad — not which, where, or from when.

Treating a PRS entry for an association or foundation as authoritative. For those the PRS is a derived register, and the primary record sits with another registry body.

Expecting the open file to carry what ePRS shows. The open data is six basic fields refreshed twice a month; the person search and the accounts-abroad check are not in it.

Watching the Official Gazette for Slovenian register publications. AJPES's web publications replace publications in the Official Gazette.

Assuming another country's publicity model. Where one register makes gazette publication the legally effective event, Slovenia moves the publication onto its own website.

Reading the twice-monthly cadence as staleness. It is a published refresh frequency, and knowing it is the point.

A repeatable Slovenia company lookup workflow

1. Search ePRS for the entity, and by person when you are starting from a founder, partner, representative or supervisory board member.
2. Establish whether the PRS is primary or derived for that entity type before treating a field as authoritative.
3. Use the accounts-abroad check as a yes/no signal and nothing more.
4. Take the OPSI files for population work, and expect six basic fields refreshed twice a month.
5. Watch AJPES's own pages rather than the Official Gazette for publications.
6. Record which registry body decided the registration alongside any association or foundation record.

Frequently asked questions

Can I check whether a Slovenian company has bank accounts abroad?

AJPES states that in the PRS you can check whether a business entity has open accounts abroad. It does not state which accounts, in which countries, or how current the information is, and this page does not either.

Can I search the Slovenian register by person?

Yes. AJPES states you can search by persons and establish whether a particular natural or legal person is a founder, partner, representative or member of a supervisory body in a business entity, and at which entity.

Where are Slovenian register publications made?

On AJPES's web pages. AJPES states that its publications replace publications in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia and are accessible free of charge.

Is the PRS always the authoritative register?

No. It is primary for entities the law says register only there, and for entities created directly by or under a regulation. For associations, foundations, political parties and natural persons carrying on a registered activity it is a derived register.

What is in the open data?

A list of units entered in the PRS with basic public data — matična številka, full name, business address, legal organisational form, registry body and the HSMID address identifier — refreshed twice monthly, free for re-use, in CSV and XML.

Where does the PRS get its data?

AJPES names the Financial Administration, the central population register, the Supreme Court, the courts, the central clearing and depository company, the Bank of Slovenia, banks, the Surveying and Mapping Authority, the Ministry of Public Administration, the Public Payments Administration, other bodies, and the business entities themselves.

Is Slovenian company data reachable across the EU?

AJPES transmits information on capital companies through the national node of BRIS, accessible on the European e-Justice Portal, and takes part in data exchange in the Internal Market Information system.

Source Register

Every Slovenian sentence quoted above is AJPES's own wording, read on the date shown, carrying its diacritics as written, with an English gloss beside it rather than in place of it. No amount appears anywhere in this page's prose.

This page does not describe the Register dejanskih lastnikov or any change to accessing it. AJPES's front page announces a change in that area and it was not read; SLOVENIA_REPORT.md flags it first, because beneficial ownership is a live question across this series and a page describing it from an unread announcement would be worse than a page that says nothing.

The readings that are InfobelPRO's rather than AJPES's: that the accounts-abroad check should be used as a yes/no signal and nothing more, since the source establishes only whether; that a published source list is worth more than a field list for judging what a register can plausibly know; that the primary/derived distinction is a trap precisely because both kinds of entry look the same; and that a partial opening with a published scope and cadence is a different thing from an incomplete one. Those are ours. The comparisons with Croatia, Norway and Switzerland are comparisons of published positions, offered without ranking.