CVR is the Danish central business register. It publishes company data and legal owners, and holds beneficial owners under restricted access. Covenance reads it directly through the Danish Business Authority's system-to-system service.
CVR, Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister, kept by Erhvervsstyrelsen, the Danish Business Authority.
CVR, Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister, is kept by Erhvervsstyrelsen and is the single register for Danish businesses. Erhvervsstyrelsen offers a system-to-system service for reading it, which is how Covenance connects.
Denmark registers ownership twice, and the two layers are not the same thing. Legal owners, legale ejere, are the registered holders of capital: a holder must notify the company once their holding reaches at least 5% of the voting rights or at least 5% of the capital, and again whenever a change crosses the thresholds of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 90 or 100 per cent, or one third or two thirds. Those notifications are published in Erhvervsstyrelsen's IT system, which is why Danish legal ownership arrives as a band rather than an exact percentage.
Beneficial owners, reelle ejere, are registered separately and with precise figures, and since 1 September 2025 they are no longer published to the public. Access is limited by law to three groups: competent authorities and the Danish Money Laundering Secretariat, obliged entities, and persons who can demonstrate a legitimate interest. A requester signs in with MitID or another eIDAS electronic identification means, or uses the API, and declares that the conditions for access are met.
Taken from the register's own documentation and from the national rules it is kept under. The sources are listed at the foot of this page.
| Information | Access | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Company data | Public | Name, CVR number, legal form, addresses, industry codes, status and the register's own dates. |
| Officers and participants | Public | Management, board, partners and resigned officeholders, with their roles and dates. |
| Legal owners | Public | Significant capital holdings and voting rights, published in the bands set by the notification thresholds in the Danish Companies Act rather than as exact percentages. |
| Beneficial owners | Restricted | Registered with precise ownership figures, and available since 1 September 2025 only to competent authorities, obliged entities and persons with a legitimate interest, under section 18 a of the CVR Act. |
| Bearer shares below the threshold | Not published | Holdings of bearer shares below 5% are registered but not published, and may be passed only to public authorities. |
| Annual reports | Public | Published annual reports and the documents behind them, including the XBRL instance where the filing carries one. |
| Status history | Public | The company's status changes, which is where insolvency shows up. |
The list below is what the connector actually calls, not what the register could in principle provide. Every value Covenance stores carries its source and the date it was read.
Candidate companies for a name or a CVR number.
Profile, address, industry codes and status, each with the date it was read.
Management, board, partners and resigned officeholders.
Registered capital holdings and voting rights, kept in the bands the register publishes.
The reelle ejere extract, pulled for one named case under the obliged-entity basis.
The publication index, read as filings, with the documents attached to them.
Figures read from the XBRL inside a published annual report.
Status changes, used as the insolvency signal.
A register answers the questions it holds answers to. These are the limits that change what an onboarding file can conclude, stated rather than left to be discovered.
The register publishes the threshold a holding has crossed, not the figure. A holding below 5% is not registered at all. Covenance keeps the band it was given and says so, rather than picking a number inside it.
A reelle ejere pull is made for a named customer case, is not cached, and is never re-served to another customer. A second case for the same company gets a fresh pull with its own record of why it was made.
The obliged-entity access that makes the extract lawful comes from EU anti-money-laundering law. Covenance does not request a Danish beneficial-owner extract for an organisation whose own anti-money-laundering jurisdiction is outside the EU.
A status change says the company's status changed. The court and the practitioner are published elsewhere, in Statstidende, which this connector does not read.
A Danish company in accounting class B may publish gross profit instead of turnover. Covenance records the gross profit and reports revenue as missing, never as zero.
A Danish company or person may forbid the use of their CVR data for marketing, under section 19 of the CVR Act. Covenance records that flag against the party and never includes a protected party in a marketing selection.
A licence or an access basis is part of the record, not a footnote: it decides what may be done with a value after it is read.
CVR data is read under the system-to-system terms accepted on application, and carries the attribution “Data fra Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister (CVR), Erhvervsstyrelsen.”
Beneficial-owner data is read on the obliged-entity basis, not as public data, and is handled as case-scoped evidence for that reason.
Read on 2026-10-25. Where a fact about the register comes from a national instrument rather than from the register's own pages, the instrument is cited.