Visura Camerale
Visura Camerale is the document that provides information on any Italian company, whether an individual company or incorporated, registered in the Italian Chamber of Commerce.
Currently, in Italy there is a Chamber of Commerce for each Italian province.
In general, Visura Camerale reports the information of the company and the main economic and administrative information including personal data, tax code, legal form, date of incorporation, the activity carried out, administrative offices, corporate bodies, and local units.
The two types of Visura Camerale
The Ordinary Chamber of Commerce Registration contains "current" information on the company while the historical Chamber of Commerce registration contains all the information from the company's origin and provides a complete and updated picture of the company structure, characteristics, and history of the company.
What can this certificate be useful for?
Experts of Process
Each country has its own system for registering the data of companies on its territory, so it is not possible to have an exact equivalent of the Italian Chamber of Commerce registration.
Many European countries are structured in a similar way, with institutions equivalent to chambers of commerce and business registers, and it is possible to contact the local institution directly or through the foreign office of your chamber of commerce to request data relating to a company that has offices in Italy.
For example, in Germany some companies (e.g. GmbH) are obliged to register with the Handelskammer, which are therefore able to issue a company-related certificate, such as the Gründungsurkunde, while others (e.g. GbR) are only registered with the Revenue Agency which does not issue any certificate.
In Anglo-Saxon countries, the business register is kept directly by the government, which can issue a Certificate of Incorporation or a Business Entity Certificate.