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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Guinea-Bissau and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Issued via Kontaktu platform (kontaktu.mef.gw); NIF issuance through legacy SIGEF system is prohibited as of 2025. Registration number: OHADA Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier number; assigned at CFE registration.

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Sector regulators

BCEAO · CIMA · AMF-UMOA · CENTIF

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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 RCCM via CFE one-stop shop; contains RCCM number, legal form, registered address.
  • Constitutive Documents: Notarized constitutive document filed at CFE; OHADA marital info requirement applies to founders.
  • Tax Registration: NIF certificate from DGCI; VAT registration (TVA 19%) required if turnover exceeds FCFA 40 million (Law 4/2022, eff. 2025-01-01).
  • Operating Permit: General business activity authorization issued by Ministério do Comércio, Indústria e Artesanato.
  • Sector-Specific License: Sector-specific: BCEAO/Commission Bancaire UMOA (banking); CIMA (insurance, member since 2002); CREPMF (capital markets).
  • Governance Records: RCCM extract lists gérant/administrateurs; nomination minutes confirm current office-holders.
  • Signing Authority: Board or GA resolution conferring signing authority; notarized POA for mandataire.
  • 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: Guinea-Bissau follows the OHADA RCCM model and does not issue a separate certificate of good standing; active status is evidenced by a recently-dated Extrait RCCM from CFE / the Ministry of Justice (or via the OHADA regional portal) reflecting current registration. Request issuance within 30 days for banking; 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

  • Guinea-Bissau is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (confirmed HCCH status table, 31-XII-2025); document legalization requires full consular/embassy chain.
  • OHADA authoritative texts are in French, not Portuguese — local Portuguese translations have no legal authority; verify filings against French originals.
  • VAT (TVA 19%) was introduced 2025-01-01 under Law 4/2022 / implementing Decree Oct 2024, replacing the prior IGV; the NIF doubles as the VAT registration identifier above FCFA 40M turnover threshold.
  • RCCM registry was paper-based for decades; computerization only started in 2017 and coverage of pre-digital records may be incomplete — request registry confirmation of record availability before ordering extracts.