OpenCorporates Italy alternative

Italy's commercial register is the Registro delle Imprese, run by the InfoCamere consortium of Camere di Commercio. The bad news: InfoCamere's own per-query API requires a signed commercial contract, registroimprese.it is F5-WAF-blocked to non-browser clients, and the SPID-gated impresa.italia.it Cassetto Digitale only opens to a company's own legal representative. The good news: under EU Directive 2017/1132, the same minimum mandatory dataset is exposed at the EU's BRIS gateway. Real-time, free, no auth. OpenRegistry uses BRIS directly.

OpenRegistry on Italy

• search_companies(IT, ...): by name or by 11-digit Codice Fiscale (auto-detected from the query string).
• get_company_profile(IT, ...): by 11-digit CF (EUID format ITRI.{CF}). Legal name, registered office, legal form, capital, EUID.
• 1-10 digit CF inputs are zero-padded to 11. REA numbers like MI-1234567 are detected and rejected with a CF conversion hint.

Out of scope for now

The richer Italian dataset (filings, officers, shareholders, charges, document bodies, beneficial owners) is paid (Visura €5, Bilancio €2.50) or SPID-gated. Those routes return a structured 501 with the registroimprese.it or titolareffettivo.registroimprese.it alternative_url. The titolare-effettivo register itself is currently CJEU-frozen, after the Consiglio di Stato's 2024-10 referral of C-37/20 plus C-601/20.

status always comes back "unknown" because BRIS does not publish the Italian active / cessata / in-liquidazione field; that lives in the paid Visura. We do not fabricate it.

What OpenCorporates has for Italy

OpenCorporates includes Italian company records in its catalogue, mostly at identifier-and-name level. That is roughly the same minimum surface as BRIS, but as a periodic crawl rather than a live call. For a workflow that needs a live CF lookup against the EU's own gateway, OpenRegistry hits BRIS directly.

Why direct BRIS matters

• Sub-second latency. BRIS is async-poll over Cloudflare Workers anycast. The response is the EU gateway's actual current record.
• No API key. No InfoCamere contract negotiation, no SPID, no F5 WAF bypass. The EU mandates this surface be free under the Directive.
• EUID round-trip. ITRI.{CF} is the EU-canonical identifier. It round-trips back to e-justice.europa.eu and any other EU BRIS consumer.

Worked example

// MCP — find ENI (oil major) by name, then look up by CF
search_companies({ jurisdiction: "IT", query: "ENI" })
// → CF 00484960588

get_company_profile({ jurisdiction: "IT", company_id: "00484960588" })
// → legal name "ENI SPA", legal form "Società per azioni",
//   registered office, capital, EUID "ITRI.00484960588"

Note that list_filings, get_officers, get_shareholders, get_persons_with_significant_control, and get_charges on Italy return a 501 with paid-portal pointers. The BRIS minimum mandatory dataset does not include those fields.