Hungary’s Company Registry (2026 Update)
Hungary's company data is scattered across three government registers and two access channels, one free and one certified, and the two often disagree on the same company. Basic data is reachable but gated behind repeated CAPTCHAs and a one-at-a-time interface. Documents cost money and a contract. Beneficial ownership is closed to outsiders. Verifying who really owns a Hungarian company is hard work.
How do you access official Hungarian company information?
Hungary runs two company information channels.
The free service at e-cegjegyzek.hu (https://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/?ceginformacio) is run by the Ministry of Justice's Company Information and Electronic Company Procedures Service.
It covers every company registered at any Hungarian court of registration. According to the website, the data cannot be used as a public document, and the free extract refreshes only when the registered data changes, so a stored extract can trail the court record by more than a week.
The certified service at www.occsz.e-cegjegyzek.hu, the National Company Registry and Company Information System, gives you real-time, legally valid (közhiteles) extracts. It is paid, it sits behind a contract, and it is the source you cite when a file must hold.
What data is available?
On the free service, two query types return different things for the same company.
The Stored company statement (tárolt cégkivonat) returns the full historical record.
Basics: registration number, company form, registration date, every recorded name and abbreviated name with effective dates, headquarters history, founding-document dates, and the full activity list by NACE code.
Capital: the registered capital.
People: senior officers and members, with dates of birth, addresses, Hungarian tax identification numbers, and the nature and start of their representation rights.
Adverse signals: NAV enforcement actions, with case number and dates.
The Company details (céginformáció) query returns a current extract for sections you tick yourself: company name, headquarters, locations, branches, activities, subscribed capital, tax number, settlement, bankruptcy and liquidation start and end dates, and section 57 data on a member or representative subject to a ban. You choose extract (kivonat) or copy (másolat) from a dropdown before you run it.
One trap worth stating: When the Kyckr team accessed it on 26 June 2026, the Stored company statement of a company in liquidation still returned the full history, but the live Company details query returned no data registered under that number as of the query date. A struck-off or deleted entity can show a rich history in one view and a blank in the other on the same afternoon. If you query a dormant or dissolved Hungarian company and the live extract comes back empty, that is not an error, and it is not a clean result. Pull the stored statement as well before you close the file.
A step-by-step guide for the free service
Step 1: Go to the portal.
Open https://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/?ceginformacio and switch the interface to English if it loads in Hungarian (toggle, top right).
Step 2: Search.
Type the company name, registration number, or tax number into the search box. You can also search by headquarters address. The system caps result volume, so a broad name like "tech" returns a "refine your search" notice rather than a list. Clear the reCAPTCHA ("Nem vagyok robot") and accept the terms. You will prove you are not a robot more than once in a single session, including again at the query step.
Step 3: Read the status marks.
Before you click on a hit, read the coloured mark beside it. Green tick: active and clean. Amber warning triangle: a caution status, such as pending proceedings. Red cross: under liquidation or struck off. The mark tells you the entity's state before you spend a query on it.
Step 4: Select the entity.
You land on a summary card with registration number, tax number, and headquarters, and two buttons. For the full history, click ‘Stored company statement’ and clear the CAPTCHA again. For a current, section-by-section extract, click ‘Company details’, tick the sections you need, choose extract or copy, and hit Query (proving you are not a robot once more). Read the timestamp at the foot of every output ("Created: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS"). That is the moment the data was true, and on the free service, it can still trail behind the court record.
Step 5: Buy documents.
For the underlying documents, you move to the certified registers below.
What documents are available, and how to get them
Three government registers hold Hungarian company documents, each with its own route.
1. The Company Register (cégnyilvántartás)
This holds the filed corporate documents (cégiratok), kept in a separate file per company, so any registered fact traces back to the instrument that proves it.
Deed of foundation or articles of association (létesítő okirat: társasági szerződés, alapító okirat, or alapszabály). The company's constitution: founders, share capital, activities, internal rules, and every amendment.
Signature specimen, notarised (aláírási címpéldány). A notarised sample of how each authorised representative signs for the company. A notary can issue it at any time.
Signature specimen, lawyer-countersigned (aláírás-minta). The same purpose, countersigned by a lawyer, and producible only during a registration or change procedure. The two are not interchangeable; lenders and some tenders require the notarised címpéldány.
Shareholders' and members' resolutions, and the registration application with attachments. The decisions and filings behind registered changes.
How to get them: from the certified National Company Registry (https://occsz.e-cegjegyzek.hu/), which is paid and sits behind a dual contract with the Ministry of Justice and Magyar Cégadat Szolgáltató Kft. Where a requested signature specimen is not held, the fee is refunded automatically.
Why there is no certificate of incorporation: the registry issues none that can be reissued. The certificate is produced once at registration and no copy is kept, so what you obtain is the certified extract (cégkivonat), the company copy (cégmásolat), or the certificate (cégbizonyítvány), alongside the deed of foundation.
2. The Financial Statements Repository (OBR)
The annual report (éves beszámoló): balance sheet, profit and loss account, supplementary notes, and the auditor's report where a statutory audit applies. It carries the figures for financial triage: revenue, profit after tax, assets, equity, liabilities, dividends, and headcount. It does not list shareholders; for owners, use the company register.
How to get it: free at https://e-beszamolo.im.gov.hu, with no registration or contract to view and download.
3. The Company Gazette (Cégközlöny)
Registration and change notices, and for joint-stock (Rt.) and limited liability (Kft.) companies, the articles of association and amendments. It is the date-stamped record of what was registered and when it became public, including liquidation, dissolution, and insolvency notices.
How to get it: free and daily at https://www.e-cegkozlony.gov.hu. Check the Gazette for the articles of a Kft. or Rt. before you pay for them elsewhere.
APIs and Open Data
Hungary has alternative ways to access company data, but they aren’t simple:
The certified channel offers machine access through occsz.e-cegjegyzek.hu. The XML service returns structured company data and certified extracts over HTTP, with the data structure published as an XSD schema and documented in the developer guide (https://occsz.e-cegjegyzek.hu/?xmlutmutato).
The Company monitoring service (cégfigyelés) sends a notification whenever a monitored company's registered data changes at the court of registration, triggered by the binding court decision or a Company Gazette publication, which gives you event-driven alerts rather than periodic re-pulls.
Access is gated by a dual-contract model. You contract first with the Ministry of Justice (cegszolgalat@mkifk.hu) and then with the technical operator, Magyar Cégadat Szolgáltató Kft. (Microsec zrt.) You are billed on two invoices as a result.
Pricing follows the Ministry's published price list and is volume-based, so the XML service's maxnum parameter, which caps returned hits, is the lever for controlling cost on broad queries.
Hungary’s Beneficial Ownership Register
Hungary's beneficial-ownership register is held by the tax authority (NAV) and is not public.
Who can access it: the authorities, nationally regulated obliged entities running customer due diligence, and, through the legitimate-interest route, foreign obliged entities, journalists, and NGOs.
What data it holds: an extract carries the beneficial owner's name, date and place of birth, nationality, address, and the nature and extent of the economic interest.
How to access it: case by case, one company per application, at roughly €3.80 per extract, with no bulk feed. Hungarian law lists legal, ownership, business, or family ties as examples of legitimate interest, but in practice, the register treats them as a requirement. When Transparency International tested 14 EU legitimate-interest regimes, Hungary refused outright, saying the interest could not be established without proof of close ties to the company. Only Hungary and Ireland refused outright.
Processing time: up to several months. The authorities reply quickly, but a fast reply that refuses access is still a refusal. The register is unusable for onboarding at the point of need.
Note the indirect model: companies do not file UBO data with NAV directly. Their banks report it monthly off the back of KYC, so the register is only as current as the bank's last report.
Reforms (2026 Update)
Beneficial ownership
On 9 June 2026, the government submitted Bill T/174, an anti-corruption and transparency package amending around 30 laws, as part of the deal struck on 29 May between PM Magyar and the Commission to unblock up to €16.4bn in frozen EU funds. Parliament approved it on 23 June by 142 votes to 39. It enters into force on the third day after publication in the Official Gazette, and fund managers must comply by 30 September 2026.
For the UBO register, it does three things:
Opens the register to more people. This includes the media and anyone in contract talks with the company, the first real loosening of a closed regime.
Widens who counts as a beneficial owner, catching people who control a company without owning much of it, including holders of special shares that carry extra votes or the right to name directors, and anyone who takes at least a quarter of the profits, counting any of the past five years.
Forces harder checks on funds. A bank serving a closed-ended fund must obtain the fund rules, the capital structure, and the list of investors, and must dig into chains of parallel funds, holding companies, and bearer units.
The new fund reporting starts with the September 2026 returns.
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Hungary runs a legitimate-interest regime and, unlike eleven other states, escaped the Commission's July 2025 infringement letters over the first set of beneficial-ownership rules.
The whole directive must be in national law by 10 July 2027, but two earlier dates come first
From 10 November 2026, every register must answer a legitimate-interest request within twelve working days, whereas Hungary now takes months.
And registers must show historical ownership, which none yet do.
The 9 June bill looks like Hungary is moving to meet these duties, with access to EU money as the spur.
One access point to 300+ company registries
Hungarian company data is obtainable, but it costs you a fragmented system, repeated CAPTCHAs, two contracts, and a UBO register that turns outsiders away. Kyckr gives you instant, structured access to Hungarian registry data and to documents from 299 other registries worldwide, from one source.