Skip to main content

​
Overview

​
Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Austria and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Format: ATU followed by 8 digits (e.g. ATU12345678). Issued automatically on tax registration or via Form U15. Registration number: Format: up to 6 digits + check letter (e.g. FN 123456a). Shown on every Firmenbuchauszug.

​
Sector regulators

FMA · OeNB · WKO/BMWET

​
How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

​
Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.

​
Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Official extract from Firmenbuch; available via JustizOnline. Confirms FN, legal form, registered seat, date of incorporation.
  • Constitutive Documents: Notarized deed required for GmbH and AG. For AG: Satzung filed with Firmenbuch.
  • Tax Registration: Collect both: UID for VAT (ATU-prefix), Steuernummer for direct taxes. Both issued by Finanzamt Österreich / BMF.
  • Operating Permit: Trade license registered in GISA (Austrian Business Licence Information System).
  • Sector-Specific License: FMA licenses for banking, payment institutions, insurance, investment firms, and VASPs (MiCA). Sector-specific; applies to regulated entities only.
  • Ownership Records: Shareholders of GmbH and AG are listed in the Firmenbuch and appear on a Firmenbuchauszug extract.
  • Governance Records: Geschäftsführer (GmbH/FlexCo), Vorstand members (AG), and Komplementäre (KG) are registered in Firmenbuch and shown on extract.
  • Signing Authority: Notarized POA (Vollmacht) or certified board/shareholders’ resolution confirming signing authority. Prokura (commercial power of attorney under §49 UGB) is registered in Firmenbuch and visible on extract.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: No standalone good-standing certificate is issued; a recently dated copy of the listed document evidences current standing. Austria issues no separate certificate of good standing; a recently dated Firmenbuchauszug from the Firmenbuch serves as proof of current active standing (subsumed-by-extract pattern, same as Germany).

​
Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

​
Notes

  • FlexCo / FlexKap is not a GmbH and not an AG — it is a distinct entity form (BGBl I 179/2023, eff. 2024-01-01) with different share mechanics (company-value shares, CVS). If Conduit’s enum only knows GmbH/AG/OG/KG, FlexCo customers will misclassify; update the codebase enum.
  • GmbH min. capital is now €10,000 (not €35,000) since GesRÄG 2023 (BGBl I 179/2023, eff. 2024-01-01). Old screening rules referencing €35,000 are stale.
  • Nominee arrangements mandatory as of 2025-10-01 — BGBl I Nr. 151/2024 (FM-GwG-Anpassungsgesetz) introduced §2a WiEReG requiring disclosure of all nominee arrangements involving legal entities even below the ownership threshold; relevant for trust/nominee structures.
  • Prokura is registered in the Firmenbuch and appears on the extract — a Prokurist’s authority is publicly verifiable without a separate POA document; the Firmenbuchauszug is sufficient for Signing Authority in that scenario.