Guinea

Overview

Field	Value
Region	Africa
ISO 3166-1	GN / GIN
Registry	RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier)
Last updated	2026-05-06

Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Guinea and submit them as strings on the application body.

API field	Local name	Issuer
`businessInfo.taxId`	NIF	DGI (Direction Générale des Impôts)
`businessInfo.businessEntityId`	Numéro RCCM	RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier)

Tax ID: Issued jointly with RCCM at one-stop window; eTax number also issued for digital filing. Registration number: OHADA-standard registry number assigned at incorporation.

Sector regulators

BCRG · CENTIF · DGI · Ministère des Mines

Legal structures

Local name	Abbreviation	Description
Société à Responsabilité Limitée	SARL	Limited-liability company with one or more associés; capital divided into non-freely-transferable parts sociales; managed by a gérant; the default SME vehicle under OHADA AUSCGIE. Equivalent to a US LLC.
Société Anonyme	SA	Share-capital public limited company requiring at least three shareholders; governed by a Conseil d’Administration or single Administrateur Général; must appoint a Commissaire aux Comptes. Closest US equivalent: C-Corp.
Société par Actions Simplifiée	SAS	Simplified joint-stock company introduced by AUSCGIE 2014 revision; share-based with flexible governance set by statuts; favored for holding structures and joint ventures. Closest US equivalent: C-Corp.
Société en Nom Collectif	SNC	General partnership in which all partners trade under a collective name and bear unlimited joint and several liability for company debts. Equivalent to a US General Partnership.
Société en Commandite Simple	SCS	Limited partnership combining one or more gérants-commandités with unlimited liability and one or more commanditaires whose liability is limited to their contribution; no minimum capital requirement. Equivalent to a US Limited Partnership.
Entreprise Individuelle	—	Individual trader (commerçant personne physique) registered at the RCCM under the OHADA Uniform Act on General Commercial Law; no separate legal personality; the owner bears unlimited personal liability. Equivalent to a US Sole Proprietorship.
Entreprenant	—	Micro-entrepreneur status introduced by AUDCG; established by simple declaration (no RCCM registration required); covers civil, commercial, artisanal, and agricultural activities with a simplified tax and accounting regime. Equivalent to a US Sole Proprietorship.
Groupement d’Intérêt Économique	GIE	Economic interest grouping allowing members to pool resources to facilitate or develop their economic activities; profit distribution is incidental and not the primary purpose; governed by AUSCGIE. Closest US equivalent: a Cooperative.
Société Coopérative	SCOOPS	Cooperative company governed by the OHADA Uniform Act on Cooperative Companies; autonomously managed by members who pool resources to satisfy common economic, social, or cultural needs; surplus allocated per member activity. Closest US equivalent: a Cooperative.

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.

Evidence area	Documents needed
Legal Registration	Certificat d’Immatriculation RCCM
Constitutive Documents	Statuts
Tax Registration	Attestation NIF
Operating Permit	Any one of: Patente · Autorisation communale
Ownership Records	Any one of: Registre des associés · Registre des actionnaires
Governance Records	All required: Statuts + PV d’Assemblée Générale
Signing Authority	Any one of: Résolution du conseil d’administration · Procuration notariée
Address	Any one of: Contrat de bail · Facture de services · Relevé bancaire
Good Standing	Certificat d’Immatriculation RCCM

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.

Document	Proves
Certificat d’Immatriculation RCCM	Legal Registration, Good Standing
Statuts	Constitutive Documents, Governance Records
Attestation NIF	Tax Registration
Patente	Operating Permit
Autorisation communale	Operating Permit
Registre des associés (SARL)	Ownership Records
Registre des actionnaires (SA)	Ownership Records
PV d’Assemblée Générale (SARL: gérant; SA: administrateurs + DG)	Governance Records
Résolution du conseil d’administration	Signing Authority
Procuration notariée	Signing Authority
Contrat de bail	Address
Facture de services (≤90 jours)	Address
Relevé bancaire (≤90 jours)	Address
Sector-Specific License	Agrément BCRG (banking/paiement/microfinance/assurance), Permis minier (Ministère des Mines)

Collection notes

Legal Registration: Issued by RCCM via APIP/SyNERGUI; contains RCCM number, legal form, and date.
Constitutive Documents: Notarial deed or private deed by lawyer (SARL: Decree of 30 May 2014); filed with APIP.
Tax Registration: NIF issued by DGI via eTax/SAFIG2 platform; delivered with RCCM certificate at APIP window.
Operating Permit: Annual business tax (patente) + municipal operating permit from Commune de Conakry or relevant local authority.
Sector-Specific License: Sector-specific; BCRG issues agrément for financial institutions; Ministère des Mines issues exploration and exploitation permits.
Governance Records: Filed with RCCM; changes notified to APIP.
Signing Authority: Board resolution or notarized power of attorney granting signing authority.
Address: Lease (no time bound) or utility bill or bank statement (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. OHADA jurisdiction: a recently dated Certificat d’Immatriculation RCCM (under business_registration) subsumes the good-standing function; no separate certificate of good standing is issued by the RCCM in Guinea.

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.

Local role	Canonical API role	Description
Gérant (SARL)	`LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE`	Manager(s) of SARL; appointed for 4 years; legally binds the company.
Administrateur Général (SA)	`CONTROLLING_PERSON`	Single executive director structure for smaller SAs.
Directeur Général (SA)	`CONTROLLING_PERSON`	Day-to-day executive appointed by Board.
Administrateur (SA)	`CONTROLLING_PERSON`	Member of Conseil d’Administration.
Président du Conseil d’Administration	`CONTROLLING_PERSON`	Chair of the Board.

Notes

Guinea is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (confirmed: HCCH Status Table, 129 contracting parties as of 2026-05-06; Guinea absent). Foreign documents require full consular legalisation chain.
Guinea is not a WAEMU member; it uses the Guinean franc (GNF), not XOF. Do not apply BCEAO/WAEMU AML directives — the national framework (Loi L/2021/024/AN + CENTIF-GN) governs.
APIP’s SyNERGUI platform is the exclusive digital channel for RCCM registration and NIF issuance since 2025; direct tribunal filings are deprecated.

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Identifiers

Sector regulators

Legal structures

How documents combine

Documents to collect

Collection notes

Person roles

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