How to check a Moldovan company by IDNO

Every legal entity in Moldova has an IDNO (Identificatorul de stat al unității de drept): 13 digits, for example 1003602023531. It doubles as the fiscal code (cod fiscal), so there is one number for the register, the tax authority, customs and the banks. Moldovan law requires it on invoices and contracts, and most shops print it in the website footer next to the SRL name.

Search by IDNO whenever you have one. Company names in the register are stored in Romanian with inconsistent diacritics (more on that below), older records may be in Russian, and popular words repeat across hundreds of SRLs. The IDNO resolves to exactly one record. About 37,000 of the oldest entries in the state file, mostly registrations from the 1990s, carry a short pre-IDNO code or none; a company trading today without a 13-digit IDNO is unusual enough to ask about.

The dataset is titled "Date din Registrul de stat al unităților de drept privind întreprinderile înregistrate în Republica Moldova" and published by ASP on the national open-data portal. A new XLSX file, about 38 MB, appears every Monday; the file of 24 Aug 2026 holds 302,232 rows on its "Company" sheet, one per enterprise, plus two sheets with the activity-code dictionaries. The archive goes back to December 2014, monthly at first and weekly since 2019, and every old file is still downloadable, which makes it a free change history: diff two Mondays and you see new registrations, liquidations and every change of director or founder in between. A sister dataset covers non-commercial organisations.

When a bank, a court or a foreign registry wants proof rather than a spreadsheet row, ASP issues an Extras din Registrul de stat al persoanelor juridice: a stamped document with the company's registration data, current administrator and founders as of the issue date. Anyone can order one for any company. Order online through the state services portal (servicii.gov.md, which now forwards to evo.gov.md) or at any ASP office; the fee depends only on how fast you want it.

Romanian has five letters with diacritics: ă, â, î, ș, ț. Moldovan records were typed over three decades on keyboards that produced two different encodings for two of them: ș and ț with a comma below (the correct Romanian letters) and ş and ţ with a cedilla (the Turkish letters that older Windows keyboards offered). To a search box they are different characters. A name typed with commas will not match a record stored with cedillas, and the same company can appear both ways across years of files. Many records also drop the diacritics entirely and shout in capitals: CHISINAU, RISCANI.

Practical habits: search the IDNO and skip the problem; if you must search a name, try it without any diacritics first, then with commas, then with cedillas; and copy the exact string from a record rather than retyping it. Foreign founders appear as they were transliterated at registration (a German founder can be spelled the Russian way), and pre-2000 records may carry Russian names, so a person search needs the same patience. The tool below folds all of these forms to one before matching, which is most of what it adds over a spreadsheet filter.

Reestri is my paid company-data service for Georgia, Armenia and Moldova on Apify. For Moldova it ingests the same weekly ASP file described above into an index of 302,232 companies, folds the diacritics, and answers an IDNO or name query with one JSON record: legal form, registration date, address, directors with roles, founders with share sizes, activity codes, a derived status, and an evidence block with the file's URL, snapshot date and hash. Lookups never touch the state website, so there is nothing to rate-limit and no captcha to respect or bypass.

The honest part: because the dataset's licence is unspecified on the portal, I have asked ASP to confirm re-use in writing and have not yet received that confirmation. Until it arrives, the Moldova lookup is not sold on its own, and in the multi-country screen Moldova is an opt-in country that you switch on knowingly (countries: ["GE","AM","MD"]). If ASP says no, the Moldova index goes away and this page will say so. Everything in the sections above is the state's own publication and does not depend on that answer.