Denmark

Find details about Denmark's beneficial ownership transparency reforms

Records last updated: 12 February 2024

Current ongoing work

We have mapped beneficial ownership data from the Danish Central Business Register to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and republish it each month for anyone to reuse and analyse.

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

Central Business Register (Centrale Virksomhedsregister, CVR)

Name
Central Business Register (Centrale Virksomhedsregister, CVR)
Scope
Full-economy
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

Commitment details

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  • Denmark has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency through some other means [06 November 2014] link to commitment
  • As a European Union member, Denmark 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