Recital 32

(32) Authorities which need to verify specific information about a company from another Member State should first consult the required information in the EU Company Certificate or through the system of interconnection of registers, instead of asking for the translation of the entire document containing such specific information. That would not affect the right of Member States to require a non-certified translation into one of their official languages if they needed the entire document in the context of a particular procedure. As regards certified translations, as a general principle, legal requirements for producing such translations of the instrument of constitution or of the other documents provided by the business register should be limited to what is strictly necessary and certified translations should be required only in specific cases. However, a certified translation could be required, for example, where the documents are to be publicly disclosed by a register, in accordance with Directive (EU) 2017/1132, or in the context of judicial proceedings.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.