Slovak Republic

Find details about the Slovak Republic's beneficial ownership transparency reforms

Records last updated: 23 September 2024

Contact person: Stephen Abbott Pugh

Current ongoing work

Open Ownership has mapped beneficial ownership data from the Slovakian Public Sector Partners Register to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and republishes it each month for anyone to reuse and analyse.

Committed to one or more

  • Live register
    Following the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
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Implementation details

Register of Public Sector Partners (RPVS)

Name
Register of Public Sector Partners (RPVS)
Scope
Sectoral: Procurement, Public procurement
Register launched
2017
Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
25%
Structured data publicly available
Yes
Published as BODS
No
Available via API
Yes
Available on the OO register
Yes

Register of legal entities, entrepreneurs and public authorities (RPO)

Name
Register of legal entities, entrepreneurs and public authorities (RPO)
Scope
Full-economy
Register launched
2018
Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
25%
Structured data publicly available
Yes
Published as BODS
No
Available via API
Yes

Commitment details

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  • Slovak Republic has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group. [11 December 2019] link to commitment
  • The Slovak Republic has committed to making public the beneficial ownership data on companies in its Commercial Register and to make its data interconnected to other national registers, namely the Register of Public Sector Partners and the Register of Legal Persons. [24 August 2022] link to commitment
  • Slovak Republic has included a commitment in an Open Government Partnership National Action Plan to beneficial ownership transparency [05 December 2019] link to commitment
  • The Slovak Republic has committed to harmonising the beneficial ownership data from its Commercial Register and the Register of Public Sector Partners - and then publishing the data in a single registry. [24 June 2024] link to commitment
  • At the 2023 Summit for Democracy, the Slovak Republic committed to effective implementation of beneficial ownership transparency measures and the maintenance of a beneficial ownership registry or an alternative mechanism [29 March 2023] link to commitment
  • As a European Union member, the Slovak Republic was obliged to create a central, public register of beneficial ownership as part of the EU’s fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. Following the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union on 22 November 2022, member states are no longer required to provide public access, and are instead required to, at a minimum, provide access to those that can demonstrate a legitimate interest. [19 April 2018] link to commitment
  • As a European Union member, Slovakia was obliged to create a central register of beneficial ownership as part of the EU’s fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive by 2017. [20 May 2015] link to commitment