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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Equatorial Guinea and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Assigned via VUE (Ventanilla Única Empresarial); mandatory for all entities. Registration number: Issued upon inscription in the Registro Mercantil via VUE.

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Sector regulators

COBAC · COSUMAF · CIMA · ANIF · BEAC

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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 Registro de la Propiedad y Mercantil, Ministerio de Justicia. No online portal.
  • Constitutive Documents: Notarised public deed required; OHADA-compliant; marital status of founders mandatory.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by Unidad de Identificación Fiscal (VUE/Ministerio de Hacienda); governed by Ley N°1/2024.
  • Operating Permit: Municipal/national commercial operating permit; obtained via Ministerio de Comercio.
  • Sector-Specific License: Sector-specific license from sub-regional body; required for regulated industries.
  • Governance Records: Directors named in the Acta Constitutiva and subsequent appointment minutes.
  • Signing Authority: Board/general assembly resolution or notarised 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: Equatorial Guinea is an OHADA member and follows the OHADA RCCM model; no separate certificate of good standing is issued. Active status is evidenced by a recently-dated Certificado de Inscripción from the Registro Mercantil (or Extrait RCCM via the OHADA regional portal) reflecting current registration. Request issuance within 30 days; foreign use commonly 60-90 days.

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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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Additional fields

Country-specific fields you’ll need to collect during onboarding, beyond the document uploads.

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Notes

  • Equatorial Guinea uses Spanish (not French) as the dominant commercial-filing language, even though OHADA texts are in French; expect Estatutos, not Statuts.
  • No public online Registro Mercantil portal; registry searches are paper-based and take 7–14 days — plan for extended turnaround on corporate extracts.
  • Equatorial Guinea is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (verified 2026-05-06 via HCCH status table); foreign documents require full diplomatic legalisation.
  • The new Ley General Tributaria N°1/2024 (in force Nov 2024) supersedes the 2004 tax law — any reference to the old law is stale.