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Data from the commercial register now available free of charge

08/05/2022 | By: FDS

On August 1, 2022, the German government implemented a European directive for better information exchange within the EU by bringing the Digitization Directive into force.

While it is in principle now possible for users of the common register portal to access data such as new registrations, notifications of changes and notifications of deletion free of charge and without registration, a closer look still reveals decisive disadvantages:

For one thing, the display of hits or search results per search query is limited to 100 results.

To locate, for example, all agencies or associations in a region or in a state, you would therefore have to make several search requests.

On the other hand, the number of search results per page is only 10 entries, which additionally means en extra effort when browsing or downloading documents. Also, no contact information can be added, nor is data such as web pages/URLs or email addresses included.

Our conclusion: in order to specifically retrieve individual commercial register excerpts, the aforementioned amendment represents good progress.

For address or direct marketing and lettershops, proprietary databases such as our Company Database 2022 continue to remain highly relevant due to the much wider range of functions. Due to the absence of the limitations described above, working with our system will save you valuable time and therefore money.

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