Overview: A Dutch company/legal entity must register its Ultimate Beneficial Owners in the Dutch Trade Register.
Purpose: Add a beneficiary of a company/legal entity
Main specifications:
- Beneficiary is the Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) of a company/legal entity, meaning a natural person who has control over a company/legal entity via, for instance, holding 25% or more of the share capital in a company/legal entity
- Multiple registrations simultaneously are possible
- Only a natural person may be registered
- In case of a change in the composition of the beneficiaries, the company/legal entity is obliged to report the changes to the Dutch Trade Register
Registering authority: the Dutch Trade Register
Term of registration: 2-3 working days
Personal presence: Optional
Conditions for registration:
- Beneficiary – Minimum 1 (maximum – unlimited) natural person of any nationality
- A statement by a natural person stating that he is the Beneficiary of a company/legal entity
Required documents:
- Passport or European ID card (for all associated persons)
- Proof of residential address not older than 3 months (for all associated natural persons)
- Signed UBOs register of the company/legal entity