Bosnia and Herzegovina Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 1,311 Bosnia and Herzegovina companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Bosnia and Herzegovina company register data has no single national system: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina registers companies through 10 cantonal courts (bizreg.pravosudje.ba), Republika Srpska through its own Agency for Intermediary, IT and Financial Services (APIF, apif.ba), and Brčko District through its own Basic Court — three parallel registries rather than one. The law defines a beneficial owner at a 25% ownership threshold, but no operationally complete register actually implements it, a gap MONEYVAL has flagged as a critical anti-money-laundering deficiency.
Bosnia and Herzegovina beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina has no single national company register; company registration is a court function split across three separate systems that must each be checked independently. In the Federation of BiH, registration runs through 10 cantonal courts, increasingly filed electronically via the BIZREG.BA portal; in Republika Srpska, applicants file through APIF’s one-stop-shop network at 11 locations, which forwards applications to the competent District Commercial Court for the actual registration decision; and Brčko District maintains its own separate register through its Basic Court. A shared search portal, bizreg.pravosudje.ba, aggregates results across all three systems, but explicitly labels them “informative only” — a certified extract still has to be requested from the specific competent court.
Beneficial-ownership transparency in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains incomplete and unresolved: the Financial Intelligence Department of SIPA administers a 25%-ownership beneficial-owner disclosure requirement under the AML Act, but MONEYVAL’s 2024 mutual evaluation found the framework not fully operational, and the absence of a working beneficial-owners registry was a central driver of BiH’s addition to the FATF grey list on June 19, 2026. Republika Srpska established its own Beneficial Owners Registry in May 2026, meeting the FATF condition for that entity, but the Federation of BiH had not done so by the same reporting period — its Ministry of Justice missed the deadline — meaning UBO data should be treated as unreliable or unavailable for Federation- and Brčko-registered entities specifically, and only cautiously available, given how new the registry is, for Republika Srpska ones.
Bosnia and Herzegovina company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
2023 figures from the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHAS), covering NACE sections B-J, L-N, P-S combined (excluding agriculture, financial and insurance activities, and public administration): of 33,288 enterprises, 95.0% were small (0-49 employees), 4.2% medium (50-249), and 0.85% large (250+) — note BHAS’s own classification uses only these three size bands rather than a separate micro tier. Small enterprises accounted for just 47.5% of employment despite being 95% of entities by count, illustrating how different an employment-share view of the same population looks. Source: Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHAS), Structural Business Statistics 2023 (Thematic Bulletin TB 14, June 2025).
Who uses Bosnia and Herzegovina ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Bosnia and Herzegovina counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Zavia's company data coverage for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Zavia holds 1,311 company records for Bosnia and Herzegovina, of which 1,308 (100%) are currently active on the register.
How does Bosnia and Herzegovina handle UBO and beneficial ownership disclosure?
Bosnia and Herzegovina company register data has no single national system: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina registers companies through 10 cantonal courts (bizreg.pravosudje.ba), Republika Srpska through its own Agency for Intermediary, IT and Financial Services (APIF, apif.ba), and Brčko District through its own Basic Court — three parallel registries rather than one. The law defines a beneficial owner at a 25% ownership threshold, but no operationally complete register actually implements it, a gap MONEYVAL has flagged as a critical anti-money-laundering deficiency.
Does Zavia track Bosnia and Herzegovina company ownership chains and parent-subsidiary links?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Bosnia and Herzegovina companies, with 3,092 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
How can I query Bosnia and Herzegovina company records programmatically?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I learn more about Bosnia and Herzegovina's company register?
Zavia's Bosnia and Herzegovina beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.