Portuguese Company Criminal Record Certificate

What this certificate is

The Portuguese criminal record system can issue a certificate for a legal person, including a company or an equivalent entity.

The document shows the criminal record information registered for that legal person under the Portuguese system. It is a different certificate from the personal criminal record of a director, shareholder or employee.

The certificate is valid for three months from its issue date.

Who can request it

The legal representative of the company can request the certificate.

A third person can also make the request when properly authorized by the legal representative and when the required evidence is provided.

For an online request, the official portal has specific identification rules for the legal representative. When the online route is not available for the entity, we use the applicable representative route in Portugal.

We confirm the practical route first and then give you the exact authorization to prepare.

What we normally need

For a standard company request, prepare:

• company name and NIPC;
• a current commercial-registry document showing the legal representative;
• identification of the legal representative;
• the exact purpose of the certificate;
• written authorization if another person will file the request;
• the destination country and receiving authority if the certificate will be used abroad.

For an entity outside the Portuguese commercial registry, send us the corporate documents first and we map the representation evidence from them.

The purpose must be specific

Portuguese criminal record requests require a concrete purpose.

For a bank, contracting party, regulator, tender authority, court or foreign business partner, send us the wording of the request. We use it to prepare the application correctly.

Need other Portuguese company documents too?

A company criminal record is often only one item in a larger corporate file.

Portugal Papers also coordinates other Portuguese documents, including:

• Company Registry Extract / Certidão Permanente;
• corporate documents that need apostille;
• certified translations;
• international delivery.

Tell us what the receiving party asked for. We build the document set around the actual requirement instead of ordering certificates one by one.

Using the certificate abroad

For international use, we prepare the company criminal record for the destination from the start.

The international document set can include:

• an apostille;
• certified translation;
• a paper version or supporting company registry evidence;
• courier delivery.

We match the apostille, translation, supporting registry evidence and delivery format to the receiving file.

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