Montenegro Company Register Search: Check Any d.o.o. 2026

Every Montenegrin company, from a one-person consultancy in Budva to a hotel group in Podgorica, has a public record that anyone can open in under a minute. A Montenegro company register search shows you who founded the business, who signs for it, where it is registered and whether it is still active. Founders use it to check a name before they file. Investors and buyers use it to verify a partner before money moves. This guide walks you through the register exactly as we use it every week for our clients.

What is the CRPS, the Montenegro company registry?

The Montenegro company registry is the Central Register of Business Entities, known by its local abbreviation CRPS (Centralni registar privrednih subjekata). It is run by the tax administration and holds the official record of every company, branch, sole trader and association registered in the country.

Every Montenegro company register search reads from this single database. There is no regional register, so a company in Herceg Novi and a company in Bijelo Polje sit in the same list and follow the same rules. When a d.o.o. is founded, the CRPS issues the registration decision, and from that moment the company exists in law.

The register does three jobs at once. It creates the company, it publishes the data third parties rely on, and it records every later change: a new director, a new address, a change in share capital or a decision to wind up. Because the record is public and official, a bank, a notary or a court will accept it as proof of who the company is and who may represent it.

How do you run a Montenegro company search by name?

You search the register through the public online portal, and the simplest way in is by name. A Montenegro company search by name works with partial text, so you do not need the full legal form or the exact spelling of a foreign word.

Here is how we run a search in practice:

• Type the distinctive part of the name, not the whole name with d.o.o. at the end
• Try both the Latin spelling and any transliteration a local founder might have used
• Add the town if the name is common, because many trading names repeat across the coast
• Open each result and compare the registration number, not just the name
• Use the tax number if the company gave you one on an invoice or contract

The portal also lets you search by registration number and by PIB. These are the two fields that never change over the life of a company, so when you are matching an invoice to a register record, search by number first. The name can change; the numbers do not.

A Montenegro company register search returns a short result list first and the full record when you open an entry. If you cannot find a company at all, check the spelling once more, then search by number. A company that does not appear under any of the three keys has either not been registered yet or has been deleted.

What does the CRPS extract actually show?

The extract, called an izvod in Montenegrin, is the full record for one company. When you check a company in Montenegro, these are the fields you read, in the order they appear:

Field on the extract	What it tells you	Why it matters
Full legal name and legal form	The registered name and d.o.o., a.d. or other form	Must match the name on contracts and invoices
Registration number	The identifier assigned by the CRPS	Permanent, use it to confirm identity
PIB (tax identification number)	The number issued by the tax administration	Appears on every invoice and VAT document
Registered seat	Town and street address of the head office	Where official letters are served
Principal activity code	The main business activity	Shows what the company is set up to do
Share capital	Registered capital of the company	Confirms the company's declared capital base
Founders and shares	Each founder with their percentage of the capital	Shows who owns the company
Executive director and representatives	The persons authorised to sign	Confirms who may bind the company
Status	Active, in liquidation, in bankruptcy or deleted	Tells you whether the company is operating
Date of registration and last change	When the company was created and last updated	Shows how established and how current it is

Read the status field first, then the representatives, then the founders. Those three lines answer the questions that matter most in a commercial decision: does this company exist today, who is allowed to sign for it, and who is behind it.

Reading founders and directors on the extract

A d.o.o. lists its founders with their share expressed as a percentage of the capital. A single-member company shows one founder at 100 percent. Where a founder is another company, Montenegrin or foreign, the extract shows that company's name and number instead of a personal name. The executive director appears separately, and the same person may hold both roles, which is the standard set-up for the founders we help through company formation in Montenegro.

How do you order an official extract from the register?

The online record is enough for most checks, but banks, notaries, courts and foreign authorities often ask for a certified extract with a stamp and a recent date. The CRPS Montenegro office issues it on request.

The process we follow for clients is straightforward:

1. Identify the company by registration number or PIB so the request is unambiguous
2. Submit the request to the registry, in person or through an authorised representative
3. Pay the administrative fee for the certified copy
4. Collect the stamped extract, usually within a few business days
5. Arrange a certified translation and apostille if the extract goes abroad

The fee for a certified extract is small and set by the registry, and it is confirmed at the time of the request. If the extract is for a foreign bank or a tender outside the country, allow extra time for the translation and the apostille, because those two steps often take longer than the extract itself.

For your own company, an official extract is a document you will use often. Opening a bank account, signing a lease, applying for a residence permit or bidding for a contract all start with a fresh extract. We keep a current one on file for every company we administer, so the request is ready when the client needs it.

How do you check a partner or supplier before you sign?

A Montenegro company register search is the first step in any commercial due diligence, and it takes five minutes. Before you pay a deposit to a contractor, agree a distribution deal or sign a lease with a Montenegrin landlord company, run through this list.

Compare the name and number on the draft contract with the register record. The two must match exactly. If the contract names a trading brand rather than the registered company, ask for the registered name and PIB and search again.

Confirm that the person signing is the executive director or a representative listed on the extract. If a different person signs, ask for a notarised power of attorney from a listed representative. This is the single most common gap we find when we check a company in Montenegro for a client.

Look at the status and the date of the last change. A company registered many years ago with a stable address and director tells one story. A company that changed its director and seat last month tells another, and you should ask why. Neither is a problem in itself, but both are questions to raise before you sign.

Finally, note the founders. If your counterparty says the business is family-owned and the register shows a foreign holding company as the sole founder, that is a conversation to have early. For the tax and accounting side of vetting a supplier, our sister brand covers the practical details in the guide to buying property in Montenegro as a foreigner, where the seller's company is checked the same way.

How do you check whether your company name is available?

Name availability is the reason most of our founders first open the register. The registry will not accept a name that is identical to an existing company's name, and it treats names that differ only in punctuation or legal form as identical in practice. A Montenegro company search by name before drafting avoids a rejected filing and a lost week.

Our name check runs in three passes:

• Search the exact name you want, with and without the legal form
• Search the distinctive word on its own, to catch near-identical names
• Search obvious variants: singular and plural, English and Montenegrin spelling, with and without a town name

Beyond availability, the name has to follow the registry's rules. It must include the legal form, it must be written in Latin or Cyrillic script, and it may not mislead about the company's activity or imply a state connection. Names in a foreign language are allowed, which is why so many companies on the coast carry English or Italian names.

We ask every founder for two names, a first choice and a reserve, before we draft the founding act. If the Montenegro company register search shows the first choice is taken, we move to the reserve the same day and the timeline does not slip. For founders combining registration with a permit, the name check is the very first item on the roadmap we describe in the residence permit through a company guide.

How does the register change when you update your company?

Your company's record is not fixed on registration day. Every material change must be filed with the CRPS Montenegro registry, and the public record updates only when the registry issues its decision on that filing.

The changes we file most often for clients are:

Change	Documents typically filed	Effect on the public record
New executive director	Founder decision, new director's ID and consent	Representative line updates, old director removed
Change of registered seat	Founder decision, proof of address	Seat and municipality update
Transfer of shares	Share transfer agreement, amended founding act	Founder list and percentages update
Increase or decrease of capital	Founder decision, amended founding act	Share capital field updates
Change of principal activity	Founder decision, amended founding act	Activity code updates
Liquidation	Liquidation decision, liquidator appointment	Status changes to in liquidation

Timing matters because third parties act on what the register shows. Until a new director is entered, the old director remains the person banks and counterparties will accept. When we change a director for a client, we file the change first and only then update the bank mandate and signature cards, so there is never a gap between what the register says and who actually signs.

A Montenegro company register search after each filing is part of our routine. We open the record, confirm the new data appears correctly, download the updated extract and send it to the client. If a field is wrong, we raise it with the registry immediately, because a correction is far simpler the week it happens than a year later.

Keeping the record accurate also protects your permit. The residence and work permit of a director is tied to that director's role in a registered company, so a change of director, seat or status is a step to coordinate with your residence and work permit file, not something to file in isolation.

Verify any Montenegrin company with us before you commit

Run the search yourself for a quick look. When a deposit, a partnership or your own company name depends on the answer, let us read the record with you. We confirm the counterparty's identity and signatories, order the certified extract, check your preferred name against the register and prepare the alternative, all before you sign anything.

Send us the name or number of the company you want to check, or the name you want for your own d.o.o. You receive a plain-English reading of the record and a clear next step. The first consultation is free, so book it through the contact page or message us on WhatsApp.