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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Djibouti and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Issued via Guichet Unique (ANPI); required for all taxpayers; obtained within 3 business days of formation. Registration number: Attributed upon registration; published on ODPIC website. No publicly documented format standard.

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Sector regulators

BCD

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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 ODPIC; registration mandatory within 1 month of formation.
  • Constitutive Documents: Constitutive document under domestic Code de Commerce; two certified copies filed at ODPIC.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by DGI; obtained via Guichet Unique (ANPI) alongside RCS registration.
  • Operating Permit: DGI-issued business activity permit; obtained at Guichet Unique; registration completes within 3 business days.
  • Sector-Specific License: BCD for banking, Islamic finance, microfinance, payment services; ARMD for telecoms, ICT, energy.
  • Governance Records: Director/gérant identity filed at ODPIC on formation and on any change.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution or notarized power of attorney; no jurisdiction-specific standardized form.
  • 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: Djibouti follows the subsumed-by-extract pattern: a dated Extrait RCS issued by ODPIC confirms current active registration status. Request a fresh extract (≤90 days). No separate certificate of good standing is issued.

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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

  • Djibouti is not an OHADA member state (absent from OHADA’s 17-member roster). Company law is governed entirely by the domestic Code de Commerce (Loi n° 134/AN/11/6ème L, 2012, as amended by Loi n° 001/AN/18, 2018). Do not apply OHADA Uniform Acts (AUSCGIE, AUDCG) to Djibouti entities.
  • Djibouti is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (confirmed HCCH Status Table, 129 parties as of 31-XII-2025; Djibouti absent). Full legalisation chain required: Ministry of Justice → Ministry of Foreign Affairs → receiving country embassy.
  • SA and SAS shares must be registered in a securities account per Loi 106/AN/24 (bearer shares prohibited from remaining unregistered). Implementing dematerialisation regulations have not been publicly confirmed as of 2026-05-06 — request written confirmation that shares are registered.
  • The Guichet Unique (ANPI) is the single registration window: RCS (ODPIC), NIF (DGI), Patente (DGI), and CNSS social registration all obtained within 3 business days. Foreign-national managers must additionally provide a certified criminal record from their country of origin.