Documents required for registration in the trade register, fiscal registration and authorization of operation of credit cooperative organization as laid down in GEO no. 99/2006 on credit institutions and the adequacy of the capital (credit cooperatives and central houses of the credit cooperatives)

Information note regarding the processing of personal data

Preliminary operations

1. Application for verification of company name availability and its reservation thereof (original) – application-form, completed with three designations, in order of preferences - details.

NOTE: The firm of a credit cooperative shall consist of an own name, followed by “cooperativă de credit” or “bancă cooperatistă”, with the specification of the locality where its registered office is situated. The chosen specification is mandatory for all the credit cooperatives of the same cooperative network.

The firm of the central credit house consists of its own designation (mentioned above) followed by the specification "casa centrală" or "bancă centrală cooperatistă".

Registration

1. Application for registration (original) – application-form – details;
2. Annex regarding fiscal registration – application-form, instructions for filling in the application – form “Cerere de înregistrare fiscală” (Application for fiscal registration) and, where appropriate, Annex regarding the foreign investment – application-form;
3. Statement form on own responsibility on the fulfilment of the conditions of functioning/carrying out the activity for the registered office and/or the secondary offices or, as appropriate, to third parties - application-form - details; 
4. Evidence of verification of company name availability and its reservation thereof - details;
5. Articles of Association (original) - details;
6. Authorization for setting up a credit cooperative issued by the central house to which it shall be affiliated with or, as appropriate, the collective authorization for setting up of the system issued by the National Bank of Romania (copy certified by the part);
7. Information from the fiscal record of the natural persons who have the obligation of presenting the certificate of fiscal record (obtained by the trade register office attached to the law court, ex officio, from NAFA - National Agency for Fiscal Administration), in original - details;
8. Identity documents of founders, administrators, managers, members of the Supervisory Committee, members of the Directorate, financial auditors, auditors natural persons, as appropriate (copy certified by the part);
9. Prior approval for the managers issued by the central house or, as appropriate, by the National Bank of Romania (copy certified by the part);
10. As appropriate, authenticated statement of own responsibility of the natural person, foreign citizen, in own name or as representative of the  foreign legal person which is not tax registered in Romania, in the original and, as appropriate, translated by an authorized translator whose signature is authenticated by a notary public - details;
11. Documents of incorporation of credit cooperatives, legal persons, founders of central houses - details;
12. Evidences regarding the registered/secondary office of the organization - details;
13. For the Central houses of the credit cooperatives, evidence of the partnership decision (original) and/or Articles of Association of the involved credit cooperatives (certified copies);
14. If applicable:
    
    • mandate for the person authorized to sign the Articles of Association in the name and on behalf of the founder, legal person (original), in case of central houses of the credit cooperatives;
    • evidence of authorisations/endorsements issued by the competent authorities as a preliminary condition to the incorporation in the trade register when the release of such authorisations/endorsements is provided for by the law, the evidences regarding the fulfilment of the conditions provided for by special laws, according to the field of activity (original or certified copy) – details;
    • endorsement of the owners’ association regarding the change of destination of collective residential buildings, pursuant to Law no.196/2018 (application-formto be filled out, original) - details;
    • special power of attorney (in authenticated form) or delegation for the persons appointed to fulfil the legal formalities (original) – details;
15. Declaration on beneficial owner of a legal person - details;  application-form; indicative model of the declaration on the beneficial owner (document under private signature); Guidance for filling in the “Declaration on the beneficial owner”;
16. Evidence of payment of legal charge - details:
• Official Gazette (“Monitorul Oficial”) Part IV publication fee

Note:

• The information from the fiscal record of the natural persons who have the obligation of presenting the fiscal record certificate are obtained by the trade register office, ex officio, from NAFA (National Agency for Fiscal Administration).
• The application for registration in the trade register is settled by the registrar, based on documents, within one working day from the registration of the application, who may order the administration of other supporting documents than those listed (Procedure before the registrar).
• The conclusion of the registrar regarding the settlement of the application for registration in the trade register is published in the Electronic Bulletin of the Trade Register (BERC) and can be viewed, free of charge, by accessing the online service portal of NTRO.
• The extract of the registrar's conclusion regarding the incorporation of a legal person is published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part IV.
• The applicant can file a complaint against the registrar's conclusion - details;
• Through the assistance departments within the trade register offices attached to the law courts, assistance services are provided upon request- details;
• The manuscript page of the documents submitted for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania represents 2000 signs, including the spaces. The documents submitted for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania shall have a legible content, 1.5 line spacing and font Times New Roman 12, without any deletions or additions that are not typed, which make incomprehensible their text - details.
• The forms for the applications and the statement – forms may be accessed on the webpage of the institution at www.ro, section “Informații de interes public” (Public information), item “Formulare tip” (Application-forms), on the online services page, at https://portal.onrc.ro, item “Formulare offline RC/RBR” (Offline application-forms for the trade register/register of beneficial owners) and they shall be distributed free of charge to each trade register office attached to the law court.
• The application for registration (signed holographically or with qualified electronic signature) together with the documents required for the registration shall be submitted to the desk-office or it may be sent by services of mail or courier or by electronic means to the trade register office in whose area their registered office is situated by the persons mentioned by art. 79 - 81 of the Law no. 265/2022, personally or by mandator. 
• When transmitting by electronic means, the documents required for registration are submitted, according to the law, in electronic format, signed with a qualified electronic signature or, as the case may be, in a copy certified by the part with a qualified electronic signature (art. 84 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application for registration, as well as the documents in its support, are submitted to any of the trade register offices (art. 85 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The applicants of the registration and, as the case may be, their legal representatives/mandators are responsible, pursuant to the law, for the legality, authenticity, accuracy of the data contained in the applications for registration and in the supporting documents submitted by them (art. 86 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application for registration in the trade register is submitted, unless the law provides otherwise, within 15 days from the date of conclusion of the articles of association or of the amending document, in the case of legal persons.
• The application for registration needs to be accompanied by all the data and documents proving the fulfilment of the conditions for registration and, where appropriate, by the evidence of payment of the charge according to the request, specified by the calculation note drawn up by the trade register office attached to the law court.
• The lack of a mandatory element of the application for registration or one of the mandatory documents in support of them attracts the rejection of the application for registration (Art. 77 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application sent in electronic form, through the online services portal or by e-mail, shall be signed with qualified electronic signature - details.
• In case the documents are sent by mail, the identity document of the requester shall be attached, in a photocopy holograph certified by the bearer regarding the compliance with the original.
• The documents whose registration, mentioning or publication is requested to the trade register office attached to the law court shall be edited by the applicant in Romanian, shall be legible, without any deletions or completions, under the sanction of their rejection - details.
• Releasing documents – details.

This leaflet is intended to serve as a general guide to professionals regarding their obligations and the legal formalities that need to be fulfilled in order to register in the trade register.