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A list of registered companies and key data about each company. Open data from company registers may be used for many ends: e.g. enabling customers and businesses to see with whom they deal, or to see where a company has registered offices. This definition draws on the work of OpenCorporates.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | No | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | The data on the website of the tax agency are up to date. The site lists company entries chronologically, with the newest entries appearing first. Latest entries are from June 2018. The data available on the website of the trade chamber is not up to date. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://cci.bf/?q=fr/entreprise - searchable database for the registered companies, https://dgi.impots.gov.bf/services-en-ligne/ifu/page4_7. - form to fetch details about a company, according to it's unique identifier | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Check onlinne and called the trade chamber to have information about the access to the bulk data | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Unique identifier per company, Register available for entire country | Unique identifier is provided by a trading number. |
| Controlled access | Yes | For this assessment we refer to publicly available sites for registered companies. There is another access-controlled database for companies after making a request :https://www.cci.bf/?q=fr/obtenir-une-base-de-donnees |
| Collector name | Chambre de commerce et d'industrie du Burkina Faso | Their company register is a reference for enterprises in Burkina Faso. See here: “Fichier National des Entreprises et des Regroupements d’Entreprises est la base de données de référence sur les entreprises au Burkina Faso” Source: https://www.cci.bf/?q=fr/obtenir-une-base-de-donnees |