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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Chad and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Mandatory for all commercial entities; also referred to as NIFU in government communications; issued at registration via ANIE guichet unique. Registration number: Format: RCCM/TD-[city code]/[year]/[sequence]. Issued upon registration; appears on the extrait RCCM.

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Sector regulators

COBAC · BEAC · CIMA · ANIF-Tchad

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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.

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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.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued by tribunal de commerce de N’Djamena; searchable via rccm.ohada.org; confirms RCCM number, legal form, registered office, current status.
  • Constitutive Documents: SARL/SAS: notarised per AUSCGIE Art. 10. SA: notarised. Filed with RCCM at incorporation; copy retrievable from registry.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by DGI; mandatory for all commercial activity; collected via ANIE guichet unique at incorporation.
  • Operating Permit: Issued by N’Djamena mairie or relevant prefecture; required for most commercial activities at municipal level.
  • Sector-Specific License: COBAC agrément required for all credit institutions and microfinance entities (CEMAC single-licence Reg. N°01/24/CEMAC/UMAC/COBAC, eff. 2025-01-01). CIMA code applies to insurers. Collect applicable licence only.
  • Ownership Records: Equity holders listed in statuts (SARL/SAS) or in a separate share register (SA). The SARL liste des associés is typically embedded in the statuts or maintained as an internal document; the SA registre des actionnaires is a separate ledger.
  • Governance Records: Lists gérant(s) (SARL/SAS) or Conseil d’Administration members and Directeur Général (SA); current officers registered and publicly searchable.
  • Signing Authority: For entities: shareholder/associate resolution. For third-party representatives: notarised procuration (power of attorney).
  • 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. In the OHADA/CEMAC framework, a recently dated Extrait RCCM reflects the entity’s current registration status and substitutes for a standalone certificate of good standing; no separate CoGS instrument is known to exist in Chad.

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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.

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Notes

  • Chad is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (confirmed HCCH Status Table: 129 contracting parties as of 31-XII-2025; Chad not listed). Foreign documents require full legalisation chain via the issuing country’s competent authority + Chadian embassy or consulate.
  • CIMA is NOT a CEMAC instrument — it is a separate 14-state treaty body (Treaty of Yaoundé, 10 July 1992; in force 15 February 1995) covering both CEMAC (6 states) and UEMOA (8 states) member states. Do not request a COBAC agrément for insurance activity; the applicable licence is the Agrément CIMA under the CIMA Code.
  • RCCM portal (rccm.ohada.org) provides search access but full extracts may require registration or in-person request at the N’Djamena tribunal de commerce. Verify current portal access before relying on remote retrieval.
  • COBAC single banking licence (Reg. N°01/24/CEMAC/UMAC/COBAC, adopted 2024-12-20, eff. 2025-01-01) changes the authorisation landscape. Banks licensed in any CEMAC state may now branch into Chad without a separate national licence; verify which COBAC authorisation document to request.