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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 | Yes | A list of registration documents is provided in one PDF file. Data is also provided as HTML and cannot be downloaded online. |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | href="https://www.gufebenin.org/index.php/entreprises" https://www.gufebenin.org/index.php/entreprises">rel="nofollow">https://www.gufebenin.org/index.php/entreprises - Single Desk of Business Formalization | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I did some research on the Google search engine. Then I called business leaders to find out | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Register available for entire country | Online data only provide the name of the company, the field of activity and the addresses. There are legal announcements of registrations, naming the person who registered, but it does not become clear if this is the owner. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Agence de Promotion des Investissements et des Exportations (APIEx) | Business creation in Benin is managed by the Agence de promotion des Investissements et des Exportations (APIEx). Etalab as part of “Hack Francophonie” has created a repository for enterprises registered in Benin. This repository should be available on the Chamber of commerce website, but is no longer available: https://github.com/etalab/HackFrancophonie/wiki/R%C3%A9pertoire-des-entreprises-enregistr%C3%A9es-%C3%A0-la-Chambre-de-commerce-et-d'industrie-du-B%C3%A9nin On the homepage of the Chamber of Commerce, there is still an icon referring to a company register, but there is no link to an actual register. |