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How to discharge the record of company’s legal address in Latvia?

Irina Papakule, lawyer of the Law office INLAT PLUS, 29.06.2010.Print version
Question: The legal address of a company has been registered at the apartment upon mutual agreement of both owner of the apartment and owner of the company. After that the company has stopped communicating with owner of the apartment, as well as to take out the correspondence. The location of the company’s owner is unknown. The owner of the apartment has submitted an application to the Register of Enterprises, which promised to impose a fine on the company. However nothing changed since then as the correspondence is still being sent to the apartment’s address. How to discharge the registration entry of legal address and what might be the consequences for the owner of the apartment in case of company’s bankruptcy?

Answer: The change of legal address of a company may be carried out as prescribed in Section 10 of the Commercial Law, which says that records in the Commercial Register shall be entered on the basis of an application of an interested person (the company) or a court adjudication. Pursuant to Section 139 of the Commercial Law, the board of directors shall submit an application to the Commercial Register Office in case of change of the legal address for making the relevant record. Therefore, the Register of Enterprises is not entitled to make records regarding the change of the legal address upon application of the owner of the apartment or at its own initiative.

 

Usually the procedure is following:

 

  1. any interested person may submit application to Register of Enterprises informing that a company is not located at the legal address;
  2. the Register of Enterprises based upon the application shall send a notification to the legal address of the company requesting it to provide explanations in respect of company’s absence at the legal address or submit change of the legal address within the period of 3 months;
  3. according to Section 314, Paragraph 3, of the Commercial law, the Register of Enterprises may bring an action in a court if the company has not rectified indicated deficiencies within three months after receiving notification;
  4. it may take more than a year for liquidation of the company and until then the legal address will remain the same.

 

Unfortunately, the legislation doesn’t prescribe any requirements to receive consent of the apartment’s owner in order to register the legal address of the company. Moreover pursuant to Section 14, Paragraph 2, of the law on the Enterprise Register of the Republic of Latvia, the competence of the Enterprise Register shall not include examination of the factual circumstances of the decision making of the merchant.

 

Therefore in theory it is possible to choose any address and the Register of Enterprises shall make the relevant record.

 

The record of the company’s legal address in the Register of Enterprises shall cause no problems for the owner of the apartment, except for receiving unfamiliar correspondence. You can try to respond to each letter requesting to stop sending the correspondence due to addressee is unknown, however all correspondence shall be sent to the legal address of the company. Therefore, the only option available is to wait for the court to take a decision regarding expelling of the company from the Register of Enterprises.

 

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