SIRENE Register
This space is reserved specifically for companies listed in the companies and establishments register and for creators of new businesses to help them with administrative formalities.
- Formalities: all individual entrepreneurs or corporate bodies are registered in the Sirene register. Insee will inform you of the circumstances in which it is necessary to register, where to carry out these formalities and how your application will be dealt with. Special cases, such as overseas companies with representation in France and public sector companies are also covered.
- Identification card: this service provides an "identification card" for all companies in the Sirene register and for each of their establishments, showing current information from the register, up to date as from the day before consultation.
- Contact forms (in French): forms are available for you to contact us and notify any changes to be made to your entry in the Sirene register or to check on the progress of your registration application if it dates back less than one month.
- Answers to frequently asked questions: the answers to frequently asked questions about the company register are presented by topic: formalities for registering a company, formalities for amending the company's entry in the register, changing NAF, information about the APE code, information about the Siren/Siret number, online services, definitions and concepts.
- Definitions: all the main definitions used by Insee in the Sirene register are given: principal activity (APE), notion of "company" or "establishment", Siren and Siret numbers, legal category (CJ), registration certificate, centre for business formalities (CFE).
- Legal texts: the fundamental legal texts on which the Sirene register is based (general clauses, content of the register of companies and establishments) and the main complementary texts (formalities, single identifying number for each company, formalities and information circuits, categories of CFEs and their areas of competence).
- Statistics from the register: based on information taken from the register, Insee offers several free services relating to registered companies and establishments.
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The SIRENE ("Database for a Register of Companies and their Establishments") register of companies and establishments was created by a decree of 1973, adopted in articles R. 123-220 to R. 123-234 of the French Commercial Code, and INSEE was appointed to manage it.
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Sirene® database
For corporate use, Insee offers company or establishment databases including the address and the economic features of each unit. These can be used for researching specific targets, creating a file of companies, updating a file of prospective customers, producing company files for mass mailing.
