KRS is the National Court Register. Because it is a nationwide repository of information on entities, it has legal force. For this reason, the register applies to entities that are legal entities or have a form similar to legal personality. It includes commercial law companies, regardless of whether they conduct business or not, and other entities established under the law. Therefore, below we present a detailed list of entities subject to registration.
Entities registered in the National Court Register:
general partnerships,
partnership,
limited partnership,
limited joint-stock partnership,
with limited liability,
joint stock,
European,
cooperatives,
European cooperatives,
European economic interest groupings,
State-owned enterprises,
research institutes,
foreign companies,
mutual societies,
mutual reinsurance association,
branches of foreign entrepreneurs operating on the territory of Poland,
Registration takes place on the basis of the submitted application KRS-Z3. For this reason, in most cases such entities are commercial companies. Subsequently, after the company has been established, the partners are required to file a registration application. For this reason, a similar obligation is imposed on them at the time of acquisition of shares in an existing company by means of the KRS-ZE form.
What happens if I do not register the entity with the National Court Register?
In the case of failure to notify the entity or change its owners, there is a possibility to incur a financial penalty and in the case of avoidance of a financial penalty – a criminal penalty. Therefore, the court has the possibility to order the liquidation of the company as “dead”.
