D&B Report Guide - Belarus

Facts and figures:

Country Belarus
International Dialling Code 375
Legal Currencies Belarusian Rouble
Population 10,000,000
Capital Minsk
Language Russian, Belarusian
Time GMT +2

D&B Business Information Report content:

D&B Rating Yes Credit Appraisal Yes
Public Data Yes Financial Ratios n/a
D&B Payment Score n/a    

Legal forms in Belarus:

Legal Form Legal Form (local)
Proprietorship Chastniy Predprinimatel and/or Unitarnoe predpriyatie
General Partnership  
Comandite Partnership  
Limited Liability Co Obschestvo s ogranichennoy otvetstvennostyu
Private Stock Co Zakrytoe aktsionernoe obschestvo
Public Joint Stock Co Otkrytoe aktsionernoe obschestvo
Cooperative Kooperativ
State Concern Gosudarstvennoe predpriyatie and/or Unitarnoe predpriyatie

 

  Name
Address
Principals		 Reg Date
Number
Start Date		 Capital
(minimum)		 Ownership
(minimum number)
Proprietorship Yes Yes None 1
General Partnership Yes Yes   2
Comandite Partnership Yes Yes   2
Limited Liability Co Yes Yes 1 600 Euro 1
Private Stock Co Yes Yes 3 000 Euro 2
Public Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 12 500 Euro 2
Cooperative Yes Yes 400 Euro 5
State Concern Yes Yes 800 Euro 1

Legal filing requirements:

It is not compulsory for Sole Proprietorships to prepare formal financial statements.

For all types of Partnerships, Private Joint Stock Co and Cooperatives, financial statements are generally only available if the company wishes to disclose them.

Financial statements are generally available if the company is Public Joint Stock Company. Year and financial statements are available from August 1st of the current year from the State Statistics Committee.

D&B Business Information Report - data sources and data elements:

Here is a breakdown of information available in Belarus and where this information is obtained from.

Trade Registrar's Office and Trade Registry Gazette:

  • registration data (registration number, date of registration, founders, place of registration)
  • banker's details

Local Telephone Directory:

  • company name
  • address details
  • telephone/fax details

Direct telephone interview:
  • activity/market territory
  • client type & number
  • premises, branches/divisions/employees
  • affiliations
  • principal's antecedents
  • expansion plans
  • balance sheets/profit & loss/projected sales

Business publications and news clippings:
  • news articles concerning the subject company and its shareholders
  • public courts
  • protested bills
  • bankruptcies

All publicly available data is collected and verified from each of the above data sources by our locally positioned D&B Correspondent for each Business Information Report request received.

Speed of service: 4 working days

Should you require any further information or have any questions, please contact your local Customer Service Centre.

Business Information Report enquiries which are placed with D&B's Emerging Markets Centre should always contain the below details. Unfortunately, enquiries without the below information have a much higher chance of being returned as an Unable To Locate Report. This is simply due to the fact that data sources in the Emerging Markets are not as sophisticated as those in Western Europe.

  • Full Company Name
  • Full Head Quarters Address (street, town, country)
  • Telephone Number
  • Fax Number

Any additional information such as a contact name or line of business would also help to locate the subject of your enquiry.