How to get assurance that a European company is legal?

• In all European countries, there are state-level enterprise registers or commercial registers, in which companies located in a given country are registered.
• In order to make it easier for citizens to find information about companies registered in one of the European countries, in the “Search for a company” section of the European e-justice portal, it is possible to search for information related to companies from the commercial registers of the countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area. The Enterprise Register of Latvia transfers the basic information of companies, as well as information about officials entitled to represent companies and basic documents of companies, to the common European database free of charge.
• In the unified European search, it is possible to search for information in all European Enterprise Registers. However, it should be taken into account that the amount of information currently available on the website from the registers of various European countries is different: a single European-level search engine is a new solution, and European countries are gradually expanding the amount of information transferred to it.
• It should be noted that the amount of information available free of charge in the registers of different European countries is also different, as the difference between how much information is available free of charge to everyone and how much information is available for a fee upon request is determined by the national regulations of each country.