Chapter IV · Registration acts

Article 72-B Making information available

Artigo 72.º-B · Disponibilização de informação

Código do Registo Comercial · Decree-Law No. 403/86 · consolidated text checked 26 October 2026

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1. For consultation only, the following information on private limited companies, public limited companies and partnerships limited by shares, and on permanent representations and external financial branches of limited liability companies with their registered office in another Member State, is made available ex officio and free of charge on the European e-Justice Portal:

1 - Para simples consulta, é oficiosa e gratuitamente disponibilizada no Portal Europeu da Justiça Eletrónica a seguinte informação sobre as sociedades por quotas, anónimas e em comandita por ações, bem como sobre as representações permanentes e sucursais financeiras exteriores de sociedades de responsabilidade limitada com sede noutro Estado-Membro:

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a) Legal form;

a) Natureza jurídica;

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b) Business name;

b) Firma;

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c) Registered office of the legal persons entered in the commercial register.

c) Sede das pessoas coletivas inscritas no registo comercial.

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d) Legal person identification number and its European unique identifier (EUID);

d) Número de identificação de pessoa coletiva e o seu identificador único europeu (EUID);

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e) Status of the company, in particular whether it has been closed or is in liquidation or dissolution;

e) Estado da sociedade, nomeadamente que se encontra encerrada, em situação de liquidação ou de dissolução;

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f) Object of the company;

f) Objeto da sociedade;

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g) Legal representatives and other persons who may act on behalf of the company;

g) Representantes legais e outras pessoas que podem agir em nome da sociedade;

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h) Any permanent representation registered by the company in another Member State, including its name, registration number, EUID and the Member State in which it is registered.

h) Qualquer representação permanente registada pela sociedade noutro Estado-Membro, incluindo a denominação, o número de registo, o EUID e o Estado-Membro onde está registada.

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2. An explanatory summary of the rules on the effectiveness against third parties of facts subject to registration is made available on the website to be designated by order of the member of the Government responsible for justice.

2 - No sítio na Internet a definir por portaria do membro do Governo responsável pela área da justiça é disponibilizada uma síntese explicativa das normas respeitantes à oponibilidade a terceiros dos factos sujeitos a registo.

What we checked in this article

The eight items of company information made available free of charge on the European e-Justice Portal, the entities covered (including branches of limited liability companies from other Member States) and the summary of the rules on effectiveness against third parties are retained.

Registering an act under Article 72-B?

We file registrations at the commercial registry for foreign-owned companies: incorporations, share transfers, manager changes, capital changes, branches, filing of accounts and closures. In English, fixed fees, with the registry fee shown separately.

Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.

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