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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Gabon and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: 13-digit unique number issued as Attestation d’immatriculation. Must register within 2 months of starting activity. Registration number: Assigned at commercial registration. Appears on Extrait RCCM.

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Sector regulators

COBAC · BEAC · COSUMAF · CIMA · ANIF

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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 Greffe/ANPI-GNI. Confirms RCCM number, registered office, managers.
  • Constitutive Documents: Private deed or notarial act. Contains name, capital, governance, shareholders at formation.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by DGI. 13-digit NIF per CGI Art. 45.
  • Operating Permit: Licence administrative required for certain establishments (hotels, bars, etc.); sectoral authorisation from relevant ministry for regulated activities.
  • Sector-Specific License: COBAC for banking and EMF; COSUMAF for securities intermediaries; CIMA for insurance. Sector-specific.
  • Ownership Records: Shareholding register embedded in statuts for SARL; SA maintains a separate share register (registre des actionnaires). Partners listed by name and share count at formation.
  • Governance Records: Managers/directors listed in RCCM filing. For SA: board composition in statuts and PV d’AG.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution for account opening; notarised POA for third-party signatories.
  • 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. No separate certificate of good standing issued in Gabon; a freshly-obtained Extrait RCCM from the Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce / ANPI-GNI serves as the current-status document in this OHADA-member jurisdiction.

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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

  • No Hague Apostille. Gabon is not a party to the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention (HCCH status table, 2026-05-06; 129 contracting parties listed, Gabon absent). Foreign documents require full legalisation: notarisation → competent authority → Gabonese embassy/consulate.
  • GNI one-stop shop: ANPI Gabon’s GNI portal (gni-anpigabon.com) processes RCCM registration, NIF attribution, and bank-account opening concurrently within 48 hours; physical notarisation no longer required for most entity types.