The Monaco company register (RCI): what it shows, and how to look a company up

The keeper is the Direction du Développement Économique (the department of economic development), through its service du répertoire du commerce et de l'industrie (Arts. 2 and 3-1). It registers: it does not incorporate a company or authorise an activity. Registration follows the declaration receipt or the authorisation, within one month of it, which is what the business authorisation asks of a founder before a Monegasque company can trade. IMSEE counted 7,414 enterprises and 7,998 establishments active at the RCI at 31/12/2025.

2. Start at the State's own service, the RCI téléservice, which offers in its own words free consultation of the public information of the Trade and Industry Directory, and says certified information may be consulted or an extract downloaded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

3. Log in for a certified document. Behind a MonGuichet login the same service sells a dematerialised extract, certified like the paper version and reusable (the Government's extract page, updated 10/09/2025).

4. Expect less on screen than in the ordinance. Which of the fourteen items a free result displays, and whether struck-off companies appear, is stated on no official page we read, so this guide describes no result screen.

The file is larger than the document. Ordonnance Souveraine n° 2.853 of 22 June 1962 makes the register electronic and gives it three parts: an arrival register, the individual files, and an annex file holding the supporting deeds, among them the statutes and the declaration or authorisation to trade (Art. 1er). Only documents filed in French are authoritative (Art. 3). Every consultation and change is logged for two years, and the information stays ten years after a dissolution or liquidation, or after a trader stops trading (Arts. 1er and 1-1).

Outside both circles sits what the State does not hold: the registre des associés ou actionnaires, the register of members, which the company keeps itself. The accounts fall between, filed with the register, and the Government states that the accounting documents are not public and may be neither consulted nor communicated.

The list of members lives with the company. Article 16-1 of Loi n° 721 requires every company to keep a register of its partners or shareholders at the registered office or elsewhere in Monaco, with identities, holdings, share classes, numbering and voting rights, and to tell the RCI where it is kept. The same article makes an agreement to act for another person void unless that register names both principal and agent. The authorities listed in Article 20 read the whole register directly, without restriction and without the person concerned being told.

Access runs through three doors, and only the three together state the law. Article 22-5: the named authorities read the register directly, without restriction and without informing the person concerned. Article 22-6: the company, its designated answerable persons and anti-money-laundering obliged entities receive an extract, with concurrent notice to the company, and may not rely on it alone, reporting a discrepancy within thirty days (Art. 22-2). Article 22-7: any other person obtains five items only, the name, the month and year of birth, the country of residence, the nationality, and the nature and extent of the interest held. The request goes to the RCI service, which tells the company and the owners of it and of its reasons; they then have two months to seek a restriction under Article 22-8, which a minor or incapable owner or a disproportionate risk of fraud, extortion, harassment, kidnapping, blackmail, violence or intimidation can justify, and which lasts five years at most, renewable. Failing that, the applicant consults the five items at the service. The form of a request and any fee sit in a sovereign ordinance we could not identify, so nothing here says how to frame one.

2. Buy it online, or at the counter. Online the purchase sits behind a MonGuichet login, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The counter is 9 rue du Gabian, second floor, MC 98000 Monaco, open 9:30 to 17:00 Monday to Friday, payment by cheque, cash or bank card.

3. Pay the state duty of EUR 15. Article 16 II charges 15 euros to the Treasury for an extract of registration or a certificate of strike-off, and the Government's page repeats it.

4. Do not plan around a delivery time. No official processing or delivery time is published for a registration, an amendment or a counter extract, so this guide gives none. What the document carries is its date of issue and the register as it stood that day.

A change that was never declared shows nowhere, and cannot be set up against a contracting third party either (Arts. 4 and 14). Registration presumes trader status until proof to the contrary, a presumption that does not reach an economic interest grouping or a business let under location-gérance (Art. 12). An authorisation may also be suspended or revoked where its holder has gone six months without trading, without legitimate reason (Loi n° 1.144, Art. 9 3°): hence the weight of a noted cessation. Readers pricing a purchase are usually looking at existing Monegasque companies for sale.

The accounts are the opposite case. Companies hold the meeting within six months of the year end and file at the RCI within three months of the meeting, and the Government's filing page states the consequence in one line: the accounting documents are not public and may be neither consulted nor communicated.

The Numéro d'Identification Statistique is a different number from a different body. IMSEE gives one NIS to each establishment carrying on an economic activity, the attestation is issued within 5 working days, and the NIS directory is a separate list.