Documents required for registration of the amendments regarding striking off after the declaration of the nullity of the company (in compliance with art. 227 paragraph (1) letter c) of Law no. 31/1990, as republished and subsequently amended and supplemented)

Information note on the processing of personal data

Phase I 

1. Application for registration - application form - details;
2. Final court decision of finding or declaration of the nullity of the company in copy legalised by the Court (original) - details;
3. As appropriate, evidence regarding the empowerment of the person appointed to fulfil the legal formalities (original) - details;

Phase II - details

1. Application for registration - application form - details;
2. Final court decision for declaring the nullity of the company (by which the liquidator was appointed by the court), as legalised copy/the document for appointing the liquidator in case this one was not appointed by a court decision for declaring the nullity of the company (original) - details;
3. Evidence of publishing the court decision for finding the nullity, done ex officio by the care of personnel of the trade register office attached to the law court (after the registration in the trade register, the court decision shall be published in the Electronic Bulletin of the Trade Register - BERC - art. 58 para. 3 of the Law no. 31/1990);
4. As appropriate:
• identification data for the liquidator legal person (copy certified by the part);
• identity document of the liquidator natural person (copy certified by the part);
• evidence regarding the empowerment of the person appointed to fulfil the legal formalities (original) - details;
• charge for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part IV.

Phase III (the liquidation proceeding provided for by art. 260 of the Law no. 31/1990) - details

1. Application for registration (original) - application form;
2. Financial statement of liquidation and the allotment of the company assets, certified by the authorized persons, in compliance with the law (copy) - details;
3. As appropriate, the report of the financial auditors/auditors (original);
4. As appropriate, the report on the management of the administrators, respectively of the directorate, if one or more administrators of partnership limited by shares and public limited company were appointed liquidators (original) - details; 
5. Evidences of payment of the legal charges - details:
• charge for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part IV (only for public limited companies and partnerships limited by shares).

Phase IV - Striking off

• Upon the liquidator's request - details
• Upon the stakeholder's request - details

• Upon the liquidator's request - details

1. Application for registration (for striking off, there shall be filled in suitably the section from point 6) - application form - details;
2. Evidence of publishing the financial statement of liquidation and assets allotment approved by the partners/ members, carried out ex officio by the trade register office attached to the law court;
3.  Report of the liquidator (original);
4. As appropriate: 
• court decision for the conclusion of the insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding and for the disposal of the striking off;
• evidence regarding the empowerment of the person appointed to fulfil the legal formalities (original).

• Upon the stakeholder's request - details

Under the conditions of art. 260 para. (7) of the Law no. 31/1990: If within 3 months since the expiration of the legal deadline provided for the liquidation of the company, extended as the case may be, the trade register office was not noticed with no application for striking off, the registrar of the trade register, ex officio or upon the request of any stakeholder, finds out that the legal deadline expired during which the liquidation could have been done and disposes the striking off of the company from the trade register - details;

1. Application for registration (original) - application form.

Note

• The application for registration in the trade register is settled by the registrar, based on documents, within one working day from the registration of the application, who may order the administration of other supporting documents than those listed (Procedure before the registrar).
• The conclusion of the registrar regarding the settlement of the application for registration in the trade register is published in the Electronic Bulletin of the Trade Register (BERC) and can be viewed, free of charge, by accessing the online service portal of NTRO.
• The applicant can file a complaint against the registrar's conclusion - details;
• Through the assistance departments within the trade register offices attached to the law courts, assistance services are provided upon request- details;
• The manuscript page of the documents submitted for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania represents 2000 signs, including the spaces. The documents submitted for publication in the Official Gazette of Romania shall have a legible content, 1.5 line spacing and font Times New Roman 12, without any deletions or additions that are not typed, which make incomprehensible their text - details.
• The forms for the applications and the statement – forms may be accessed on the webpage of the institution at www.ro, section “Informații de interes public” (Public information), item “Formulare tip” (Application-forms), on the online services page, at https://portal.onrc.ro, item “Formulare offline RC/RBR” (Offline application-forms for the trade register/register of beneficial owners) and they shall be distributed free of charge to each trade register office attached to the law court.
• The application for registration (signed holographically or with qualified electronic signature) together with the documents required for the registration shall be submitted to the desk-office or it may be sent by services of mail or courier or by electronic means to the trade register office in whose area their registered office is situated by the persons mentioned by art. 79 - 81 of the Law no. 265/2022, personally or by mandator. 
• When transmitting by electronic means, the documents required for registration are submitted, according to the law, in electronic format, signed with a qualified electronic signature or, as the case may be, in a copy certified by the part with a qualified electronic signature (art. 84 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application for registration, as well as the documents in its support, are submitted to any of the trade register offices (art. 85 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The applicants of the registration and, as the case may be, their legal representatives/mandators are responsible, pursuant to the law, for the legality, authenticity, accuracy of the data contained in the applications for registration and in the supporting documents submitted by them (art. 86 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application for registration in the trade register is submitted, unless the law provides otherwise, within 15 days from the date of conclusion of the articles of association or of the amending document, in the case of legal persons.
• The application for registration needs to be accompanied by all the data and documents proving the fulfilment of the conditions for registration and, where appropriate, by the evidence of payment of the charge according to the request, specified by the calculation note drawn up by the trade register office attached to the law court.
• The lack of a mandatory element of the application for registration or one of the mandatory documents in support of them attracts the rejection of the application for registration (Art. 77 of Law no. 265/2022).
• The application sent in electronic form, through the online services portal or by e-mail, shall be signed with qualified electronic signature - details.
• In case the documents are sent by mail, the identity document of the requester shall be attached, in a photocopy holograph certified by the bearer regarding the compliance with the original.
• The documents whose registration, mentioning or publication is requested to the trade register office attached to the law court shall be edited by the applicant in Romanian, shall be legible, without any deletions or completions, under the sanction of their rejection - details.
• Releasing documents– details. 

This leaflet is intended to serve as a general guide to professionals regarding their obligations and the legal formalities that need to be fulfilled in order to register in the trade register.